Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup performance

2008-08-28 14:50:31
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup performance
From: "Lukasz Szybalski" <szybalski AT gmail DOT com>
To: Technik <technik AT zli DOT ch>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:50:22 -0500
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Technik <technik AT zli DOT ch> wrote:
>>But On Full backup:
>>FD Bytes Written: 63,668,167,347 (63.66 GB)
>>SD Bytes Written: 63,983,912,475 (63.98 GB)
>>Rate: 771.2 KB/s
>>Software Compression: 82.3 %
>>
>>This saves me 11GB? So How fast will my backup rate be? Currently it
>>is at 771kb seems low for what people mentioned on this list.
>
> I know three settings that can have an impact on performance: VSS,
> compression and Maximum Network Buffer Size.
>
> VSS and compression belongs to the FileSet Resource.
>
> Maximum Network Buffer Size belongs to the File Daemon and the Device
> Resource. Searching the manual (pdf) for Network Buffer Size gives you
> the right hits where you can find more detailed information.
>
> If a Windows machine is so slow as you describe I would try to set
> Maximum Network Buffer Size = 32768 in the fd-conf of this machine.
> After this you have to restart the bacula service.

Has anybody tried increasing Windows Buffer size to 64K instead of
lowering Bacula?

Thanks,
Lucas


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