> It's VERY fast on backups where it is doing large to medium files, and > VERY slow on backups where it has to back up millions of tiny files. I > have three webservers I back up that fit the "millions of small files" > definition, and a full backup of each of them takes about 3 hours > apiece. One of them for example is almost 7 million files, totalling > about 39GB. That backup takes 3 hours, with3563.8 KB/s throughput (I > spool to disk, then to tape). > Are you using spooling on the backup with 7 million files? As turning this on should help speed up the database access as the attributes get spooled at the end in one batch instead of between each file.
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