Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-08 08:27:11
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage
From: Laurent HENRY <Laurent.Henry AT ehess DOT fr>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:24:30 +0100
Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 20:50:18 Mark, vous avez écrit :
> > btw, i actually experience it with disk backups.
> > Does this mean software compression limits deeply backup speed ?
>
> In my case, software compression was a _massive_ slowdown, to the point
> that my preference was to throw more disk space to bacula to keep my jobs
> completing in a reasonable time.  This was backing up a server with a
> couple hundred gigs of large files, not tons of small files.
>
> Try your job without compression enabled at least once, to get yourself a
> good comparison.
>
> Mark

Turning compression off on disk backup definitely improve the performance.
I was at 17MB/s and now i am at 30 MB/s.

On my network graphs i still see i don't often go beyond the 100Mb/s i don't 
find any explanation on the network side.

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