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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up many small files

2013-02-05 06:41:46
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up many small files
From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se>
To: "'General list for user discussion, questions and support'" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:39:54 +0100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus [mailto:universe AT truemetal DOT org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 11:58 AM
> To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up many small files
>
> I posted basically your same question a few months ago and with the
> help
> of the friendly people on this list it turned out that I just have
> simply way too many files on the client, about 25 million actually. Do
> a
> "find / | wc -l" to see how many files you got! My find run alone took
> 8
> hours if I remember correctly. So how is rsync supposed to do it any
> faster :)  You can check the thread here, people share some really good
> infos: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30104262

Oh, yeah. I remember that one now, I followed it rather closely for a while. 
Thanks for the reminder!

Doing the suggested find-operation. Will be back in a while with more info. 
8-)


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/Sorin

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