Tobias Bartel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i am tasked to set up daily full backups of our entire fax communication
> and they are all stored in one single director ;). There are about
> 800.000 files in that directory what makes accessing that directory
> extremely slow. The target device is a LTO3 tape drive with an 8 slots
> changer.
> 
> With my current configuration Bacula needs ~48h to make a complete
> backup which kinda conflicts with the requirement of doing dailys.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions on how i could speed things up? 

Even with 800,000 files, that sounds very slow.  How much data is
involved, how is it stored and how fast is your database server?


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