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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Allen Belletti wrote:
I would add that having fewer, larger files should make backups much
more feasible. There's a certain amount of overhead for each file
That's true for full backups. I don't defend Maildir, esp. because it
changes the filename, which is a new file for any backup software (which
are usually not Maildir aware in my case).
operation (especially for us GFS people!) and reducing the number of
files will reduce that overhead.
Also, makes partial recoveries problematic.
Right now our backups (done via rsync) take a pretty scary amount of
Yep.
Bye,
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Steffen Kaiser
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