[Bacula-users] Long Backups on an FC6 system

[Mike H. <fl...@ya...>]

Howdy,

 

I'm backing up my first machine using Bacula.

Bacula-dir, bacula-sd and bacula-fd are all on this same computer, Linux
Redhat FC6 box backing up to a locally connected 500GB USB 2.0 hard drive.
So, everything is local.

 

The system is an AMD Athlon XP 1900+ with 512 MB's of DDR and it's starting
in "init 3", so no gui.

 

The total amount of files to be backed up on this first backup is
approximately 105 GB's, 4 GB's on the / partition and 101GB's on another
partition on a different drive.

 

The backup started yesterday at 17:30

 

It is now 10:00, 16.5 hours later and 57GB's have been backed up.

 

Looking at the top command, the system isn't doing a whole heck of a lot

bacula-fd fluctuates from 3% cpu to 35%

bacula-sd stays around 1 to 3%

usb-storage stays around .3%

 

The system has 328 MB's of RAM free.

 

load average is 6.63 on the system.

 

I'm using the setting: Compression = GZIP

in the FileSet, which will increase the time it takes to back up, but still
100 GB's locally and 16 hours still seams a bit long.

 

I'll try it next without the compression, but does anyone know if this is
this normal for a single box solution with 100GB's of data?

 

Thanks, Mike