Re: [Bacula-users] Interesting performance observation

[Josh F. <jf...@pv...>]

On 12/5/2010 9:20 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
> Bacula 5.0.2. This is not a problem; just an observation.
>
> I do backups to disk only, using six RAID arrays for storage, totalling
> 45TB physical disk. Originally I used six pools and six devices, but ran
> into disk space management issues. This setup was converted to one device
> and one pool per client (about 50). Backups are compressed and TLS is used
> (storage is offsite). No other changes were made: backup throughput
> performance almost exactly doubled.

If multiple jobs were running simultaneously with the 6 device setup, 
then that would skew the results of a direct job-to-job comparison.