On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 07:38:40PM +0300, Yuri Timofeev wrote:
> >
> > can you give me some tips for backing up an filesystem with many many small
> > files on it ?
> >
> > The problem is, that i must backup mailservers with about 300 GB and  more
> > than 1-2 million of many small files (Maildir).
> >
> > The File Table in the bacula database grows up to more than 3GB and the
> > backups takes more than 30 hours.
> >
> > Is this an good time, or is there an way to optimize this eg. to run more
> > cuncurrent jobs than one on the client ?
> >
> > When i turn on concurrent jobs must i enable data spooling ?
> 
> Yes. Use concurrent jobs and enable data spooling.
> I always used the concurrent jobs and data spooling, despite warning
> that the written in documentation. All - OK.
>

what parameter space are you in? how many files? how much concurrency? how
is you spooling configured? etc ...


-- michael
 

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