Fileset Tuning Parameters

Enterprise

Bacula Enterprise Only

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The following parameters can be utilized to adjust the plugin’s behavior for increased flexibility in challenging network conditions, high job concurrency scenarios, and similar situations.

It is not necessary to modify them for the great majority of the cases:

Option

Required

Default

Values

Example

Description

concurrent_threads

No

500

1-1000

100

Number of maximum concurrent backup threads running in parallel in order to download blocks from a given EBS volume

api_timeout

No

9000

Positive integer (seconds)

20000

Total timeout for AWS API calls

api_read_timeout

No

600

Positive integer (seconds)

5000

Timeout for AWS API calls to respond

general_network_retries

No

600

Positive integer (number of retries)

10

Number of retries for failed requests to the AWS API

general_network_delay

No

50

Positive integer (seconds)

100

Delay between retries to the AWS API

snapshot_operations_timeout_seconds

No

1800

Positive integer (seconds)

3600

Timeout for snapshot related operations (like make snapshot) before giving up

instance_operations_timeout_seconds

No

1800

Positive integer (seconds)

3600

Timeout for instance related operations (like booting an instance) before giving up

volume_operations_timeout_seconds

No

1800

Positive integer (seconds)

3600

Timeout for volume related operations (like changing the status of a volume) before giving up

blocks_page_size

No

2048

Positive integer (number of blocks). Maximum is 10000

4000

Number of blocks that will be contained in the pages when listing EBS disk blocks. This will generate the same number of threads to retrieve the data in parallel, so size accordingly your FD host and your JVM memory configuration

blocks_ordering_sir

No

Yes

0, no, No, false, FALSE, false, off ; 1, yes, Yes, TRUE, true, on

No

Re-order the blocks before sending them to Bacula so Single Item Restore feature is possible. Disabling it can improve performance and decrease memory consumption, but it will make Single Item Restore not possible

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