On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:29:40PM -0400, McDonagh, Joe wrote:
> I keep getting estimate timeouts on a certain folder on an NFS mount.
> Now I can backup smaller folders on this mount no problem, I can back up
> a couple small directories no problem. When I try to do three, I get
> timeouts. When I try to do a large directory, I get estimate timeouts. I
> set the etimeout to 3600. When I go into that directory and do a du -h,
> it takes forever. Any ideas?

When working with lots and lots of small files, walking the
directory tree is a slow, expensive activity.  If you must
do things that way, live with it and further increase etimeout.

Two alternatives I might suggest, don't nfs, backup the client
directly.  nfs just slows things down even more.

Or you might try the very latest release of amanda which has
new features for estimating the size of a DLE.  Perhaps a
better term would be guesstimating the size.  I've not used
them, but I suspect that if the file system is fairly
consistant in its size and level of change the new techniques
would work very well.  If I ever get a working tape drive
again I plan to try them out.

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