> Hi Everyone,
> 
>   I just wanted to reply with a thank you to everyone who posted
> ideas.  It was definitely a database problem, and I think it was the
> attribute spooling which ended up fixing it.  I added Heitor's DB tuning
> instructions; used mysqlcheck -m/-o on my DB; and then added "Spool
> Attributes = yes" to the default job definition and backups went from
> 120-130 hours down to 10.  Quite an improvement. :)

Wow Charles: what a kudo. Congratulations!

Regards,
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> 
> On 15-05-22 06:28 AM, Charles Tassell wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>   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.
>>
>>   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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