Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 02:24:16 John Drescher, vous avez écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY <Laurent.Henry AT ehess DOT fr> 
wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >  Maybe not a direct question about bacula but i am looking for some
> > feedback of bacula users.
> >
> > My Debian 5 bacula server is directly connected to a Cisco 6500 Switch.
> > Either the bacula server, the switch, the servers backuped are using Gb
> > interfaces.
> >
> > Looking a bandwith usage, i barely use 100Mb. i see bursts at 110 or 130
> > Mb/s and nothing more.
> >
> > I know speed depends a lot of files backuped (big ones, a lot of short
> > ones, etc) but this really less that i need to backup huge volumes.
> >
> > Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage
> > ?
>
> Turn software compression off.
> Backup to tape with software compression off.
>
> John

btw, i actually experience it with disk backups.
Does this mean software compression limits deeply backup speed ?

I experience this low network usage behavior with tape backup without software 
compression and with disk backups but with a very low compression ratio (less 
than 5%)

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