On Friday 07 January 2011 16:48:07 Oliver Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so.
> bacula does one job after the other and I have a max. transfer rate of
> 11 to 12 MBytes/second due to the 100Mbit connection.
> 
> For testing purpose I connected one client via crosslink (1Gbit on
> both sides) to the server. But I still have the same transfer rate. Why
> is that?
> 
> The communication definitely goes over 192.168.1.2/192.168.1.1.
> The settings on the client and server are pretty much default.
> 
> I copied an 1,1GB test file with scp through the 1Gbit line and had
> approx. 50MB/s. 
> Or with ftp:
> 1073741824 bytes sent in 10.61 secs (98867.6 kB/s).
> 
> Thx for hints,
> 
> Oliver

Years ago I did the same test and I found out that compression was to blame - 
when I turned off compression I got basically the speed of HDD writing.

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