Boris Kunstleben onOffice Software GmbH wrote:
> 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).

Can you give us the time for doing a tar to /dev/null of the fileset.

time tar cf /dev/null /path/to/maildir

Then we have a feeling about the "actual read time" for the file of the 
filesystem.

-- 
Jesper


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