Yea, you're right, there are tons of small files... I would be backing up this client directly, however it's not actually a unix system, but an EMC data storage system. So I guess my choice is either to upgrade or increase etimeout... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: estimate timeouts
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:29:40PM -0400, McDonagh, Joe wrote: > I keep getting estimate timeouts on a certain folder on an NFS mount. > Now I can backup smaller folders on this mount no problem, I can back up > a couple small directories no problem. When I try to do three, I get > timeouts. When I try to do a large directory, I get estimate timeouts. I > set the etimeout to 3600. When I go into that directory and do a du -h, > it takes forever. Any ideas? When working with lots and lots of small files, walking the directory tree is a slow, expensive activity. If you must do things that way, live with it and further increase etimeout. Two alternatives I might suggest, don't nfs, backup the client directly. nfs just slows things down even more. Or you might try the very latest release of amanda which has new features for estimating the size of a DLE. Perhaps a better term would be guesstimating the size. I've not used them, but I suspect that if the file system is fairly consistant in its size and level of change the new techniques would work very well. If I ever get a working tape drive again I plan to try them out. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
