> I have very poor performance when the agent send the spool to the bacula
> server
>
> I currently use a RAID5 SAS 15K, 1GB Ethernet
>
>
>    hdparm -t /dev/sda2
>
>
> /dev/sda2:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  692 MB in  3.00 seconds = 230.41 MB/sec
>
>
> Any idea what I can check?
>
> 07-Apr 00:08 angel-dir JobId 1443: Start Backup JobId 1443,
> Job=fraser.2010-04-07_00.05.01_01
> 07-Apr 00:08 angel-dir JobId 1443: Using Device "LTODriver"
> 07-Apr 00:09 angel-sd JobId 1443: Volume "DMS002L4" previously written,
> moving to end of data.
> 07-Apr 00:09 angel-sd JobId 1443: Ready to append to end of Volume
> "DMS002L4" at file=237.
> 07-Apr 00:09 angel-sd JobId 1443: Spooling data ...
> 07-Apr 00:33 angel-sd JobId 1443: Job write elapsed time = 00:23:49,
> Transfer rate = 8.092 M bytes/second
> 07-Apr 00:33 angel-sd JobId 1443: Committing spooled data to Volume
> "DMS002L4". Despooling 11,574,810,050 bytes ...
> 07-Apr 00:36 angel-sd JobId 1443: Despooling elapsed time = 00:02:34,
> Transfer rate = 75.16 M bytes/second
> 07-Apr 00:36 angel-sd JobId 1443: Sending spooled attrs to the Director.
> Despooling 5,369,625 bytes ...
> 07-Apr 00:36 angel-dir JobId 1443: Bacula angel-dir 3.0.1 (30Apr09):
> 07-Apr-2010 00:36:47
>  Build OS:               i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat Enterprise release
>  JobId:                  1443
>  Job:                    fraser.2010-04-07_00.05.01_01
>  Backup Level:           Incremental, since=2010-04-06 00:11:20
>  Client:                 "fraser" 3.0.1 (30Apr09)
> i686-pc-linux-gnu,redhat,Enterprise release
>  FileSet:                "Fraser" 2010-01-13 08:12:58
>  Pool:                   "IncrPool" (From Job IncPool override)
>  Catalog:                "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
>  Storage:                "LTO4Driver" (From Job resource)
>  Scheduled time:         07-Apr-2010 00:05:01
>  Start time:             07-Apr-2010 00:08:31
>  End time:               07-Apr-2010 00:36:47
>  Elapsed time:           28 mins 16 secs
>  Priority:               10
>  FD Files Written:       17,598
>  SD Files Written:       17,598
>  FD Bytes Written:       11,560,818,747 (11.56 GB)
>  SD Bytes Written:       11,563,514,692 (11.56 GB)
>  Rate:                   6816.5 KB/s
>
> FileSet {
>  Name = "Fraser"
>  Include {
>    Options {
>      signature = MD5
>    }
>    File = /etc
>    File = /var/spool/mail
>    File= /export/home0
>    File= /export/home1
>    File= /export/home2
>    File= /export/home3
>    File = /export/netinst
>    File = /usr/local
>    File = /local
>  }
>  Exclude {
>    File = /sys
>    File = /boot
>    File = /dev
>    File = /proc
>    File = /tmp
>    File = /.journal
>    File = /.fsck
>  }
> }
>
>
> Job {
>  JobDefs = "DMSDefault"
>  Name = "fraser"
>  Enabled= yes
>  FileSet = "Fraser"
>  Level = Full
>  Client=fraser
>  Write Bootstrap = "/local/bacula/bin/working/Fraser.bsr"
> #  Full Backup Pool = FullPool
> #  Incremental Backup Pool = IncrPool
> #  Differential Backup Pool = DiffPool
>  Schedule = "DMS"
>  SpoolData=yes
> }
>

This is not poor performance. You are doing an incremental backup. In
this case bacula will spend a large chunk of its time searching for
what files to backup and not actually backing up data.

John

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