Hi,

i am doing exactly that since last Thursday. 
I have about 1.6TB in Maildirs and an huge number of small files. I have to say 
it is awfull slow. Backing up a directory with about 190GB of Maildirs took 
"Elapsed time: 1 day 14 hours 49 mins 34 secs".
On the other hand i have a server with Documents and images (about 700GB) took 
much less time.
All the Servers are virtuall Enviroments (Virtuozzo).

Any Ideas would be appreciated.

Kind regards Boris Kunstleben


Silver Salonen schrieb:
> On Thursday 27 November 2008 11:07:41 James Cort wrote:
>   
>> Silver Salonen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 27 November 2008 09:50:14 Proskurin Kirill wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hello all!
>>>>
>>>> Soon I will deploy a large email server - it will use maildirs and will 
>>>> be about 1Tb of mail with really many small files.
>>>>
>>>> It is any hints to make a backup via bacula of this?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I think Bacula is quite good for backing up maildirs as they constist of 
>>> separate files as e-mail messages. I don't think small files are a 
>>>       
> problem.
>   
>> I don't think they're a problem either and I also backup a maildir-based
>> mail server.
>>
>> However, one thing you may want to be aware of - unless you take
>> specific steps to avoid it, the maildirs on tape won't necessarily be in
>> a consistent state.  Obviously this won't affect your IMAP server - but
>> it does mean that when you restore, metadata like whether or not emails
>> have been read or replied to and recently received/sent email won't be a
>> perfect snapshot of how the mailserver looked at any given point in time.
>>     
>
> And when you have many incrementals in a row while restoring, you end up 
> seeing many duplicate messages, that have been deleted or moved during these 
> incrementals.
>
> It'll be better in Bacula 3.0, I guess :)
>
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