Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup, how to optimize ?

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

> The DataSpooling has not changed my backup. (See the end of this post)
> 1day and 14hours for 390Gb .... :(
>
> By cons I just saw that on Friday I restarted only StorageDaemon, was it
> also restart Director and FileDaemon?
>
> Do you think that enabling compression could improve backup when there are
> many small files?
>
>
I would expect adding software compression to slow the backup down.

Does your source raid array have a cache? Reading many small files causes a
lot of seek operations.

John