Jesper Krogh wrote:
> T. Horsnell wrote:
>> I will be backing up maybe 70million files in one job.
>> Am I approaching any Bacula/catalog limit on the number of files?
>> What is the maximum number of files which Bacula can handle,
>> and are there any other limits which we should know about?
> 
> You might be heading for problems during restore. The restore process
> of building a virtual filesystem hierachy of the files cannot handle
> this many. I've got around 24 million files in one fileset. That is not
> restorable using this method. It works fine if I just restore by "jobid" 
> or some of the restore methods that doesnt require the virtual 
> filesystem hierachy to be build up and worked on.

Out of curiosity, what's the latest version that you've run into this problem 
in?  2.4 has some serious performance improvements in building the file tree 
over 2.2.

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