Hi Christian,

1. How long does the backup?
2. Do you use compression?
3. Do you use incremental backups?

Regards - Willi

Am 04.11.2013 11:22, schrieb Christian Manal:
> On 04.11.2013 10:45, Willi Fehler wrote:
>> Hi Bacula-Users,
>>
>> we want to backup our central nas-server.
>>
>> disk-usage: 885G
>> ca. 10 millionen small files
>>
>> In the past the old it-colleges tried to use Bacula but the backup
>> crashes. Anybody have expirience with many small files and Bacula or
>> know a good alternative? I think if we try it again, we have to disable
>> compression.
>>
>> The central nas server is a DRBD-Cluster(Primary/Secondary) on Debian
>> Squeezy with lvm/ext3 running on a Dell PowerEdge R710.
>>
>> For any feedback, I thank you in advance.
>>
>> Regards - Willi
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Hi Willi,
> 
> I have a file set with roughly 12 million files with a size of just over
> 1 TB. The only problem I had with that job (in terms of number of files)
> was when I tried to enable accurate backups for it, which crashed
> something (director/database/file daemon), because it needed a boatload
> of RAM that I didn't have.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Christian Manal
> 
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