> So one of my machines has a few zillion tiny little files. > > My full backup took 44 hours. I can deal with that if I have to. > My incremental backup has been running for 10 hours now. > Files=71,560 Bytes=273,397,510 Bytes/sec=7,666 Errors=0 > Files Examined=14,675,372 > > I know that bacula has to look at each file to determine if it's > changed. And I am investigating whether or not we actually need to > keep all of these little files, or if we can zip them up into archives. > > In the meantime, I'm just wondering if there is some why to speed up my > backups. For example, > signature=sizeonly > or > signature=stupid > or some other undocumented and unrecommended (but needed) way to > speed up the verification of file changes (or lack thereof). >
I would turn off compression, enable attribute spooling and enable concurrency. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users