Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit backup speed

2010-08-14 09:42:05
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Limit backup speed
From: Dietz Pröpper <dietz AT rotfl.franken DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:39:14 +0200
James Harper:
> >   Hi at all,
> > 
> > I got a trouble: a server of our server farm runs some perl scripts
> 
> that
> 
> > are bad influenced by Bacula backup.
> > Until our developers will return from holiday (damn), I need to limit
> > bacula speed.
> > Our servers are connected by 100Mbps ethernet network, should I tune
> > Maximum Network Buffer Size parameter?
> 
> 100Mbps is not that fast and shouldn't place that much load on the
> servers. Are you sure this is the cause of the problem?

I'd assume that the load itself does not cause problems, but the backup 
might trash the in-memory disk cache, which can result in quite some 
degradation. But in this case, limiting bandwidth won't solve the problem 
anyway.

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