On 4/08/2016 23:56, cardiganimpatience wrote:
> Backups are taking about three hours for a particular fileserver and records 
> indicate that over 300k new directories are being created every run.
>
> I opened the XferLOG in a browser and searched for the word "create d" which 
> catches every newly-created directory. The count was 348k matches. But the 
> file count in the summary is only 4724 files [sorry for the formatting]:
I can't comment on the rest, but directory entries are always created, 
because backuppc needs them for the backup structure (and there is no 
disk saving/not possible to hard link them)...


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