Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 11:27:01
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups
From: Jason Voorhees <jvoorhees1 AT gmail DOT com>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:24:24 -0500
Hi:

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:19 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jason Voorhees <jvoorhees1 AT gmail DOT 
> com> wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 in RHEL 6.0 x86_64 with a Library tape IBM
>> TS3100 with hardware compression enabled and software (Bacula)
>> compression disabled, using LTO-5 tapes. I have a Gigabit Ethernet
>> network and iperf tests report me a bandwidth of 112 MB/s.
>>
>> I'm not using any spooling configuration and I'm running concurrent
>> jobs, just only one. This is the configuration of my fileset:
>>
>> FileSet {
>>       Name = fset-qsrpsfs1
>>       Include {
>>               File = /etc
>>               File = /root
>>               File = /var/spool/cron
>>               File = /var/run/utmp
>>               File = /var/log
>>               File = /data
>>               Options {
>>                       signature=SHA1
>>                       #compression=GZIP
>>               }
>>       }
>> }
>>
>> My backups were running with a minimum of 54 MB/s and a maximum of 79
>> MB/s. Are these speeds normal for my scenario?
>
> Is the source a raid? Do you have many small files?
>
> John
>

No, there are just a "normal" number of files from a shared folder of
my fileserver with spreadsheets, documents, images, PDFs, just
information of final users.

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