Hello again,
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018, Bowie Bailey wrote:
... The directory is XFS.
I have no experience of XFS, but I've read of strangenesses. It's my
understanding is that yours is a fairly newly-copied filesystem, and
the strangenesses I've read about have been after the filesystems have
had a lot of use, so at this stage I don't think messing about trying
different filesystems is called for - but things might change.
What's the root filesystem?
... There is a single directory with 3 million files ... it has
grown over time and was never expected to get that large.
Now might be a good time to think about restructuring it - thinking,
as you do so, about what else was unexpected.
... The backup is local to the machine and is being done via rsync.?
The data and backup are on separate disks.
First of all I suggest trying to use $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} and/or
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} to see if you can back up just a few (er, a
few tens of thousands:) of the files in a reasonable time. Obviously
I know nothing about the way the files are used/modified. Would it be
out of the question to back up something like 1% of the files per day,
i.e. have a rotation period of three months?
How would you suggest I go about collecting more info?
To see more log information increase the value of $Conf{XferLogLevel}.
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73,
Ged.
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