Hi, On Friday 16 December 2011 10:42:00 Jean Spirat wrote: > I use backuppc to save a webserver. The issue is that the application > used on it is making thousand of little files used for a game to create > maps and various things. The issue is that we are now at 100GB of data > and 8.030.000 files so the backups takes 48H and more (to help the files > are on NFS share). I think i come to the point where file backup is at > it's limit.
Excuse my "off topic"-ness, but with that many small files I kind of expect a filesystem to reach certain limits. Why is that webapp written to use many little files? Why not with a database where all that stuff is in blobs? That whould be easier to maintain and easier to back up. Have fun, Arnold
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