>Are you restoring a few files from a backup?  An entire backup?

I am restoring the entire backup, the full two tapes worth of data.

>What command did you issue?

# bextract -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -V 000011L4\|000021L4 /dev/nst0 
/restores

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Langille [mailto:dan AT langille DOT org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 1:06 PM
To: May, John
Cc: 'bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net'
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 restore files from tape very slow

On 7/15/2010 2:07 PM, May, John wrote:
> I am using Bacula 5.0.2 using MySQL on Centos 5.4 x64.  I'm trying to
> restore some files from a backup I made a couple months ago. I the
> restore is about 1.5 TB in size and spans two LTO4 tapes. I can start
> the restore just fine and the first 5GB flies by in a minute or so, then
> the restore sort of stalls and starts crawling. It slows down to about
> 1MB/s down from about 70MB/s. There are only about 15,000 files on the
> tapes and I am restoring to a local Raid 0 array.

Are you restoring a few files from a backup?  An entire backup?

> I tried to bextract the files with and without a bootstrap file and the
> speed is still very slow. I also verified I have the correct the indexes
> in Mysql and I compacted the database.
>
> At this rate, I don't think the restore will finish, because it is going
> so slow.
>
> Any ideas on what's going on?

What command did you issue?

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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