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Re: [Bacula-users] speed up my backups

2011-04-19 10:04:33
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] speed up my backups
From: Marcello Romani <mromani AT ottotecnica DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:02:12 +0200
Il 19/04/2011 15:37, hymie! ha scritto:
>
> 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).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --hymie!    http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie    hymie AT lactose.homelinux 
> DOT net
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Maybe it's not relevant to your case, but have you tried to enable 
spooling ?

HTH

-- 
Marcello Romani

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