Re: [Bacula-users] bacula backup discrepancies

[Phil S. <phi...@sp...>]

Dave wrote:
> Hello Ryan,
> Thanks for your reply. I'm not backing up to tape yet, just disk. The
> disks on both the server and client are IDE not scsi unfortunately. I'm
> using a mysql4 database also installed via freebsd ports. Not sure how
> to test drive speed, but i am not spooling, should i be? When a job runs
> the windows boxes in particular slow to a crawl so i don't use them if
> i'm up at that point, the jobs run at night.


Sounds like the performance bottleneck is on the Windows clients
(something that shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone).  Using the
monitoring utilities provided with Windows, you should be able to tell
whether it's CPU-bound or I/O-bound.


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