>>>>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:40:25 -0000, "Andrew Paterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>>>>> said:
>
> Yes,
>       I've had this happen to me on at least one ocasion & I beleive it
> ultimately amounts to the director (I think) running out of memory.
> I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but it looks to me like bacula builds its file
> tree in memory & if so, then well thats just asking for trouble isnt it - I
> dread the days when I have to do a restore from a full backup for this very
> reason.
> Does anyone know if bacula builds its directory/file tree in memory or does
> it use work files as it should?

How many files?  Note that even at 1KB per file entry in memory, 102000 files
would only requie 100MB.

A common cause of slowness in restore is missing indexes in the database.

__Martin


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> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
> Morgan
> Sent: 08 March 2006 8:34PM
> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Bacula-users] Trouble restoring backed up file
> 
> 
> I am trying to restore a single file or directory from a full backup 
> job. However, when I specify the jobid in the console, it just sits 
> there telling me it is building the file tree. I tried it from a 
> smaller, incremental job, and it seemed to build the tree ok, but this 
> large full backup just doesn't happen.
> 
> The backup job is 102k file count and approximately 18GB. How long 
> should I expect this to take to build the file tree?
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> Michael L. Morgan
> Director of Operations
> Iodynamics, LLC
> (435) 760-1046
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