Boris Kunstleben onOffice Software GmbH wrote: > Hi, > > i am doing exactly that since last Thursday. > I have about 1.6TB in Maildirs and an huge number of small files. I have to > say it is awfull slow. Backing up a directory with about 190GB of Maildirs > took "Elapsed time: 1 day 14 hours 49 mins 34 secs". > On the other hand i have a server with Documents and images (about 700GB) > took much less time. > All the Servers are virtuall Enviroments (Virtuozzo).
Can you give us the time for doing a tar to /dev/null of the fileset. time tar cf /dev/null /path/to/maildir Then we have a feeling about the "actual read time" for the file of the filesystem. -- Jesper ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users