Tx again,
All servers are Redhat Enterprise Linux (3,4,5).
The server is a RHEL5 with amanda-2.5.0p2
Clients are  : amanda-2.4.5p1



Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
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> FM wrote:
>> Hello,
>> one of my partition have more then 100 GB of html files inside a folder.
>> I am using tar because we want to exclude some folders next to the huge
>> one. Tar is taking hours to stats (?) all files inside the big folder.
>>
>> Could it be faster if I create a new partition for this big folder and
>> the use dump to backup the partition?
> 
> It might also be helpful to know your operating system and software
> versions. On some systems dump is broken. On Solaris, ufsdump works and
> is fast.
> 
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