Poor imaging backup speeds (UrBackup 2.0.32)

@uroni If I need to test anything, please let me know. My client is in quite a hurry, as one of his back-ups currently takes more than 24 hours.

Thanks for the investigation. I have an idea on how to improve it but it would be a pretty large change and as such suitable for 2.1 which will be a while (a month or something).

Hmm. Any way to speed this up? I have just bought a few licenses for CBT, so that should help for incrementals, right? But my customer is really anctious to get this right…

Yes should help, but then you probably already tested that. Most of the time will be spent testing the new versions, so you could watch the testing category and use early beta versions.

Does the phrase “Improved image backup performance” in the UrBackup Server 2.1.0 beta/Client 2.1.0 beta have anything to do with this thread?

Yes. Hope it is improved in your case as well.

I upgraded to 2.1.18 and client 2.1.14-cbt. Image backups are even slower now at about 15Mbit (so about 1MB/sec)…

If you run iotop or iostat on the server while the backups are running, what do you see?

This is not a server issue, it’s about idle.

Others have reported the opposite e.g. Slow backup speeds

Does it have the same speed if you run a full image backup?