[Bacula-users] Performance issues after upgrade

Hi,

On a bacula installation that I originally set up on a machine running
Debian "etch", everything was running smoothly.

Since etch has been EOL'ed, it was necessary to upgrade it, and we
recently did do an upgrade to lenny. This also involved an upgrade of
bacula from 1.38 (the version in etch) to 2.4.4 (the version in lenny).
The unfortunate result of that has been that a full backup job of a
server with slightly more than a tera of data, which used to take just
shy of 24 hours blew up to just over three days.

Obviously I'm not very happy with that. Investigating turned up that for
some reason data spooling was not enabled; enabling that caused a
massive gain in performance, with only one thing left.

After the backup job is finished (which now takes a bit more than 24
hours, something I consider acceptable), bacula starts spooling
attribute data. This, too, takes just over 24 hours, with no output
during the whole time this is happening.

Since the postgresql 'postmaster' is in 'D' state the whole time when
this happens, I suspect this has something to do with postgresql not
being properly configured, or similar, but I don't see what exactly is
going wrong. Is there a resource somewhere that I could look into to
help me figure out what's wrong with my postgresql setup? Or is there
something else I should look into?

If this is a known issue that is fixed in later bacula versions, please
let me know; in that case an upgrade is not out of the question, though
I'd prefer not having to do that if it isn't necessary.

Thanks,

-- 
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works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is
trying to fool the system.
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