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Re: [Bacula-users] Performance problems in migration from disk to tape

2009-01-23 03:46:11
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Performance problems in migration from disk to tape
From: Ulrich Leodolter <ulrich.leodolter AT obvsg DOT at>
To: Ari Suutari <Ari.Suutari AT syncrontech DOT com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:43:33 +0100
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:05 +0200, Ari Suutari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My configuration is roughly like this: I back up
> about 10 hosts to disk volume using bacula and
> migrate the backups to tape once a week.
> 
> Backups work ok, the resulting volume file on
> disk is currently about 25 Gb. I have also some
> backups going directly to tape, performance there
> is also ok.
> 
> But the weekly migration job, which moves backups
> from disk volume to tape is really slow.
> 
> For example:
>   Elapsed time:           7 mins 14 secs
>   SD Files Written:       2
>   SD Bytes Written:       3,913,732 (3.913 MB)
> 
> A relatively small backup job, only a couple of
> megabytes took more than 7 minutes. When I looked
> at the machine, it was doing heavy disk io, tape
> is mostly idle.
> 
> This sounds a little bit similar as issue discussed
> here earlier:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
> net/msg31142.html
> 
> I wonder if there was any solution, configuring things
> differently maybe ?
> 

Hello,

This is know problem in bacula versions up to 2.4.4
It is fixed in recent beta 2.5.28-b1

We are running the same Setup (just Copy instead of Migrate)

30 Clients

CopyDiskToTape weekly full backups (~600GB) takes 3 hours
CopyDiskToTape daily incr backups (~30GB) takes 10 minutes



Regards
Ulrich


> Regards,
> 
>    Ari Suutari
> 
> 
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