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...
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.
The 2.4.5 options of server and calcsize are very fast.
With calcsize I am currently attempting resolve a possible bug with --exclude-from / exclude list option. Where it appears to be not excluding one entry in my exclude file but it is excluding the other entries in the file. Hmmmmm.
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.
-- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -------------------------------------------------
