Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula limits

2008-08-29 10:34:51
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula limits
From: Eric Bollengier <eric AT eb.homelinux DOT org>
To: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:34:37 +0200
Hello,

Le Friday 29 August 2008 15:43:28 Dan Langille, vous avez écrit :
> ebollengier 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?
> >>
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > By default, the database is configured to handle 4 billion entries in
>  > the file table, and
>  > with 70million files per job, this limit will come quite fast.
>
> Do you have a reference for this 4 billion limit?
>
> I suspect you are referring to the data types used for the file.fileid
> column.  In PostgreSQL, this is an integer value.
>
> 4 bytes
> -2147483648 to +2147483647
>
> With 8 bytes we can get (commas added by me)
> -9223372036854775808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807
>
> See
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-numeric.html#DATATY
>PE-INT
>
> In MySQL, the limits are the same.

Yes, this is this field, so if it's signed, your are right.

>  > I suggest you to apply the trunk/patches/testing/fileid64.patch patch
>  > to your installation, and to upgrade the FileId field of your catalog
>  > (see update_mysql_catalog shell).
>
> Looking at that patch, I think other tables need to change as well:
>
>    basefiles.fileid
>
> And I keep thinking something else should change too.  This would be
> easier with foreign keys defined.  ;)

This table is unused at this time, but my patch include a change for this 
table.

>  > Your configuration seems to be very interresting, can you fill a
>  > testimonialat http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=testimonial ? (it can be
>  > anonymous)
>
> Yes, I would encourage that too.

Bye

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