[Samba] much slower backups using smbtar

Sutto Zoltan sutto.zoltan at rutinsoft.hu
Tue Mar 2 18:36:12 GMT 2004


I have removed SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 from socket_options.
It helped. I hope it's not having any side effect.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <monitor at oops.co.at>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] much slower backups using smbtar


> Hello, Sutto,
>
> Freitag, 06. Februar 2004, 21:51 you wrote:
>
> SZ> There is a backup script running from cron which create daily
incremental
> SZ> and (full on friday)
> SZ> backups from samba shares (>6GB/share) using smbtar.
>
> SZ> Output of backup script on PII config:
> SZ>     538112 ( 3981.1 kb/s)
>
> SZ> Output of backup script on P4 config:
> SZ>      37888 (  146.2 kb/s)
>
> SZ> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> What's the script doing?
>
> As you not only upgraded Samba, but the whole OS, I would look for
> issues like network-config, duplexing and such first.
>
> How fast is your standard copy-to-samba-share for instance?
>
> --
>
> It is nice to tell us about your shiny new hardware, but this is
> obviously not your bottleneck.
>
> Maybe it is just your new NIC set to halfduplex-10mbit ---- ;)
>
> In short words, this might not be a Samba-topic at all.
>
> Look for basic network-config first.
>
> -- 
> best regards,
> Stefan G. Weichinger
> mailto:monitor at oops.co.at
>
>
>
>
>



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