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Re: [BackupPC-users] 8.030.000, Too much files to backup ?

2011-12-19 13:07:03
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] 8.030.000, Too much files to backup ?
From: Jean Spirat <jean.spirat AT squirk DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:04:39 +0100
Le 18/12/2011 20:44, Pedro M. S. Oliveira a écrit :
>
> you may try to use a rsyncd directly on the server. This may speed up 
> things.
> another thing is to split the large backup into several smaller ones.  
> I've an email cluster with 8TB and millions of small files (I'm using 
> dovecot),  theres also a san involved. in order to use all the 
> bandwidth available I configured backup to run from username starting 
> in a to e,  f to j and so on,  then they all run at the same time. 
> incremental take about 1 hour and full about 5.
> cheers
> pedro
>

I directly mount the nfs share on the backuppc server so no need for 
rsyncd here this is like local backup with the NFS overhead of course.

Do you won a lot from splitting instead of doing just one big backup ? 
At least you seems to have the same kind of file numbers i have.

regards,
Jean.

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