[BackupPC-users] three hundred thousand directories 'created' during backup

2016-08-04 Thread cardiganimpatience
On 04 Aug 2016 14:04, Adam Goryachev wrote: I can't comment on the rest, but directory entries are always created, because backuppc needs them for the backup structure (and there is no disk saving/not possible to hard link them)... Makes perfect sense! Thanks for the response Adam.

Re: [BackupPC-users] three hundred thousand directories 'created' during backup

2016-08-04 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 4/08/2016 23:56, cardiganimpatience wrote: > Backups are taking about three hours for a particular fileserver and records > indicate that over 300k new directories are being created every run. > > I opened the XferLOG in a browser and searched for the word "create d" which > catches every

[BackupPC-users] three hundred thousand directories 'created' during backup

2016-08-04 Thread cardiganimpatience
Backups are taking about three hours for a particular fileserver and records indicate that over 300k new directories are being created every run. I opened the XferLOG in a browser and searched for the word "create d" which catches every newly-created directory. The count was 348k matches. But