Hi All.. 

Been running through my first install, bit of a learning curve, but I think 
I've gotten there.

My fileset is large, and bandwidth is a big issue (backing up via internet). So 
I've been keeping a close eye. 

nethogs (debian util for monitoring processes and bandwidth) shows two seperate 
processes sharing nearly equal bandwidth (though the rates do fluctuate) during 
a transfer. These two processes saturate my internet connection (for outbound 
data anyway). But when I check the transfer rate in the console, it only seems 
to be half of what I'd expect (so only one of those processes?)

To illustrate: my maximum upload bandwidth for the machine running bacula-fd is 
around 100KBps, watching nethogs on that machine shows two processes 
("/usr/sbin/bacula-fd" and "sshd:root @notty") each fluctuating between 40KBps 
and 60KBps. So between the two of them they saturate the upload bandwidth for 
that machine or internet connection. However, when I check "status 
job-d=foobar" on bconsole, the transfer rate hovers around 50KBps, suggesting 
that only one of those processes is actually transmitting data.

I did read somewhere that bacula-dir does run two connections to bacula-fd 
during a backup, one for data and one for attributes. But would the attributes 
really comprise that much data?

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