Re: Poor network backup performance

Martin Simmons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:55:00 +0000, Phil Pemberton via Bacula-users said:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using Bacula to back up my NAS for some time, and it's been 
> working well. I see effective backup rates of about 30MB/s all told 
> (100MB+ unspooling from SSD to tape, maxing out the LTO6 drive).
> 
> Unfortunately when I added my desktop PC to the backup cycle, I found 
> that the effective rate dropped like a rock, to single-digit megabytes 
> per seconds.

Is it slow with level=Full backups?  If it is only slow with
level=Differential or level=Incremental then it might just be spending time
scanning the filesystem looking for files that have changed.

__Martin
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