Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed writing to tape drive

2009-07-13 12:50:07
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Speed writing to tape drive
From: "Hayden Katzenellenbogen" <hayden AT nextlevelinternet DOT com>
To: "Martin Simmons" <martin AT lispworks DOT com>, <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:25:20 -0700
Martin,

I am not using Gzip in Bacula. The drive I have does hardware
compression I thought that would be enough for now. I seem to be getting
about 1.2T on an 800G LTO4 tape.

Here is the iostat output during a full backup.  I will try and do the
tar test later this week.

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           0.28    0.00    0.08    0.20    0.00   99.43

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
sda               0.41         3.98        10.42   23966207   62765414
sdb              11.46      1159.01       623.79 6979515937 3756450992
sr1               0.00         0.00         0.00          8          0
sr2               0.00         0.00         0.00          8          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           5.30    0.00    1.09    6.60    0.00   87.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
sda               2.50         2.40        27.97         24        280
sdb             222.88     47629.17       298.10     476768       2984
sr1               0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
sr2               0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           6.26    0.00    1.44    6.09    0.00   86.21

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
sda               1.00         0.80        37.60          8        376
sdb             261.60     54036.00       132.80     540360       1328
sr1               0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
sr2               0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           4.74    0.00    0.83    6.38    0.00   88.05

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
sda               1.40         0.00        31.20          0        312
sdb             181.70     39100.80       133.60     391008       1336
sr1               0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
sr2               0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           6.27    0.00    1.36    5.59    0.00   86.78

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
sda               0.50         0.00        29.60          0        296
sdb             240.30     54162.40       135.20     541624       1352
sr1               0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
sr2               0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0 

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Simmons [mailto:martin AT lispworks DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:13 AM
To: Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Speed writing to tape drive

>>>>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:14:09 -0700, Hayden Katzenellenbogen said:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks to a patch published two weeks ago I am finally making headway
> into the wonderful world of Bacula. I have a single machine right now
> with about 1.2T of data I am backing up.
> 
> When I run the btape fill test I get write speeds of around 70MB/s
when
> I run a full backup from the local machine I get about 20MB/s is there
> anyway to figure out where the bottle neck is?

Are you using software compression (gzip) in Bacula?

What do "top" and "iostat 10" show when running a backup?

You could try using tar to check the speed of your filesystem, e.g.

time tar cf /dev/null /some/very/large/directory

__Martin

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