Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

2011-01-07 04:43:24
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup
From: "mailing AT securitylabs DOT it" <mailing AT securitylabs DOT it>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:22:07 +0100
On 07/01/2011 09:49, Marcin Krol wrote:
>> IMHO if "Spool Attributes" is not enabled, bacula inserts metadata into
>> the catalog after every file - in your case 660'000 inserts instead of 1
>> large insert with "Spool Attributes".
>>
>> please enable "Spool Attributes" and try again.
>>
>> to prevent  shoe-shining  of the tape, I would recommend to enable "Spool
>> Data" too.
>>
>> - Thomas
> I've added both spool attributes and spool data. Backup speed of my mail
> server is still about 1 MB per second. Backup speed for other machines
> now reaches up to 80 MB/s.
>
> In this case, how can I examine where slowdown occurs, at client side or
> at storage side?

Hello, what about disk I/O on the mail server? I suppose you use Maildir 
format for mail storage, try to mount the file system on the mail server 
with noatime option.

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