Re: Bacula Backup Performance
Dave Tibbetts <[email protected]>
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OMG. I'm an idiot. Thank you , Dragan! How did I miss that??? It IS a network issue. On 9/18/25 9:54 AM, Dragan Milivojević wrote: > If your network speed is 95 M BITS and bacula transfer rate is 11 M BYTES ... > > On Thu, 18 Sept 2025 at 15:24, Dave Tibbetts <[email protected]> wrote: >> Another slow backup issue and I'm hoping someone can help. >> >> I'm running Bacula 13.04 on Ubuntu 25.04. >> It's been running fine for several years over many Bacula and OS upgrades. >> >> Suddenly on 3 August 2025, my backup speed was cut by about half. I have a desktop that typically would run about 25 to 26 MB/s and is now running at 11.5. This is running via ethernet. >> >> I'm seeing the same with another machine that's also on ethernet and a wireless laptop. >> >> I'm using virtual tapes in the filestor, and the bacula director and storage are on the same machine. Again, small setup and been very reliable. >> >> SpoolAttributes is set on for all jobs. >> >> I ran iperf from my desktop to my server and got solid numbers: >> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd >> [ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 12.4 MBytes 104 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> [ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 11.4 MBytes 95.5 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> [ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 11.0 MBytes 92.3 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> [ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 11.5 MBytes 96.4 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> [ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 10.9 MBytes 91.2 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> [ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 11.5 MBytes 96.5 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> [ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 10.9 MBytes 91.2 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> [ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 11.5 MBytes 96.5 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> [ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 11.4 MBytes 95.4 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> [ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 11.0 MBytes 92.2 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr >> [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 113 MBytes 95.1 Mbits/sec 0 sender >> [ 5] 0.00-10.02 sec 112 MBytes 94.1 Mbits/sec receiver >> >> I tried using ethtool to tweak the NIC's - >> >> ethtool -K eno1 tso off gso off gro off >> >> But that didn't help. >> >> >> I went back through the Bacula archives and tried many, many different things - none of which helped. I finally decided to just delete the rebuild the Postgresql database and delete all the virtual tapes. >> >> So I brought everything back up and started a backup on a brand new catalog. Same throughput 11.5 MB/s >> Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: End auto prune. >> Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: No Files found to prune. >> Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: Begin pruning Files. >> Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: No Jobs found to prune. >> Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: Begin pruning Jobs older than 1 month 16 days . >> Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: Bacula Enterprise Bugs-Bunny-dir 13.0.4 (12Feb24): >> Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-bacula-enterprise ubuntu 22.04 >> JobId: 1 >> Job: Backup_Bullwinkle.2025-09-17_15.58.07_17 >> Backup Level: Full (upgraded from Incremental) >> Client: "Bullwinkle-fd" 15.0.3 (25Mar25) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu,redhat,; >> FileSet: "Bullwinkle Set" 2025-09-17 15:58:07 >> Pool: "File" (From Command input) >> Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource) >> Storage: "Filestor" (From Command input) >> Scheduled time: 17-Sep-2025 15:58:07 >> Start time: 17-Sep-2025 15:58:09 >> End time: 18-Sep-2025 06:48:23 >> Elapsed time: 14 hours 50 mins 14 secs >> Priority: 10 >> FD Files Written: 145,410 >> SD Files Written: 145,410 >> FD Bytes Written: 618,967,362,190 (618.9 GB) >> SD Bytes Written: 618,992,689,163 (618.9 GB) >> Rate: 11588.1 KB/s >> Software Compression: 2.5% 1.0:1 >> Comm Line Compression: 5.2% 1.1:1 >> Snapshot/VSS: no >> Encryption: no >> Accurate: no >> Volume name(s): Oviedo0001|Oviedo0002|Oviedo0003|Oviedo0004|Oviedo0005|Oviedo0006|Oviedo0007|Oviedo0008|Oviedo0009|Oviedo0010|Oviedo0011|Oviedo0012|Oviedo0013|Oviedo0014|Oviedo0015|Oviedo0016|Oviedo0017|Oviedo0018|Oviedo0019|Oviedo0020|Oviedo0021|Oviedo0022|Oviedo0023|Oviedo0024|Oviedo0025|Oviedo0026|Oviedo0027|Oviedo0028|Oviedo0029|Oviedo0030|Oviedo0031|Oviedo0032|Oviedo0033|Oviedo0034|Oviedo0035|Oviedo0036|Oviedo0037|Oviedo0038|Oviedo0039| >> Volume Session Id: 1 >> Volume Session Time: 1758138994 >> Last Volume Bytes: 7,428,533,207 (7.428 GB) >> Non-fatal FD errors: 0 >> SD Errors: 0 >> FD termination status: OK >> SD termination status: OK >> Termination: Backup OK >> Bugs-Bunny-sd JobId 1: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 40,737,115 bytes ... >> Bugs-Bunny-sd JobId 1: Elapsed time=14:49:57, Transfer rate=11.59 M Bytes/second >> >> Is it something crazy like my FD on the desktop is 15.0.3 and the server is running 13.04? >> >> I'm just totally out of ideas. What am I missing? >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users