On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Ross Boylan wrote: > I've been having really slow backups (13 hours) when I backup a large > mail spool. I've attached a run report. There are about 1.4M files > with a compressed size of 4G. I get much better throughput (e.g., > 2,000KB/s vs 86KB/s for this job!) with other jobs. > > First, does it sound as if something is wrong? I suspect the number of > files is the key thing, and the mail spool has lots of little files > (it's used by Cyrus). Is this just life when you have lots of little > files?
How long does it take just to create a tar file containing those 1.4M files, with no bacula in the picture? Perhaps the file system type is of concern here. Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
