>   I'm using external USB drives setup with the vchanger system to
> simulate a tape library, and I've got a problem where the backups are
> running horrendously slow.  IE, the full backup of my small server
> (5.5GB) takes 8 hours and 10 minutes, and the backup of my 690GB file
> server takes 5-6 DAYS.  The problem doesn't seem to be the USB drives
> themselves as I can push 3GB/minute to them easily which means the 690GB
> backup should take under 6 hours.

Hello Charles. Please take a look at some notes about tuning. I would start 
with database ones: 
http://www.bacula.com.br/tuning-melhoria-de-performance-dos-backups/?lang=en

> Does anyone know what could be going on here?  Right now the Bacula
> director and storage-director are running on the file server as I
> thought that would be faster, but maybe that's a bad idea? There doesn't
> seem to be a big load issue, at least not enough of one to make the
> backups take 20-25x longer than with rsync...
> 
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