On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Vectorz Sigma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a mail server that has a very large number of files on its fs. We're > talking in the 10's of millions of files. Therefore, as you can imagine, > the differential comparison calculations nightly take a very long time and > even after extending the timeout period to something crazy like 6 hours it > still times out. Anyone have any performance suggestions for doing daily > differential calculations?
Use calcsize or server-side estimates? see the 'estimate' dumptype parameter. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com