Bacula 5.2.10, CentOS 5/6, x86_64. Just a curiosity. I note that full backup performance across many systems is typically in the 6-10 MB/sec range; I am using GZIP4 and the backups are typically comp
Author: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:31:16 -0500
I would say this is a combination of filesystem performance ( remember that when you backup there can be a lot of seeks that reduce performance) and decompression performance. Decompression is less C
Ah yes, you're right. A gunzip on some test files is indeed 4-5 times faster than a gzip on the same data. I never noticed that big a difference before. Steve -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL
If you have spooling disabled because you are writing backups to disk, you may see an improvement by explicitly enabling attribute spooling to prevent database writes from interfering with i/o from t