T. Horsnell wrote:
> 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.

How long did it take to do that?

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