Jesper Krogh wrote:
> T. Horsnell wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>> Jesper
>>
>> Ah. Thanks for this tip. I've already got around 39 million files 
>> backed up, so I'll see if I hit this problem - I'm running bacula 2.4.2.
>
> You can easily test it. Just start a restore. If you get to the point
> where it starts reading from the tapes, then you should be Ok, and you
> can just cancel the restore.
>
I just got to the restoration point OK with 39million files, so I guess 
if this was
a bug, then its been fixed. I'll try this periodically as the file count 
increases.

Cheers,
Terry

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