On 03/07 08:14 , David Brown wrote:
> Unfortunately, the resultant filesystem has very little resemblance to the
> file tree that backuppc writes.  I'm not sure if there is any utility that
> creates this kind of tree, and I would argue that backuppc shouldn't be
> either, since it is so hard on the filesystem.
> 
> Basically, you need to first create a deep tree (like a filesystem), and
> then hardlink all of those files into something like a pool, in a very
> different order than they were put into the tree.

ok. point taken.
Bonnie does create a very shallow tree for these files, but it's only a
directory or two deep.

What we really need is a Backuppc-specific benchmark. I don't suppose
there's an easy way to take the storage engine out of backuppc, put it into
some sort of test harness, and run some benchmarks with it?

The only thing like this that I can conceive, would be to take a backup of
the backuppc pool before a BackupPC_nightly run, time that run; then restore
the copy of the pool onto a different filesystem type and try the same thing
again. rather laborious, and not necessarily accurate.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com


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