Am 15.11.2012 19:20, schrieb Les Mikesell: > If there are top-level directories segregating the files sensibly you > could split it into multiple 'shares'. Otherwise, you could switch > the xfer method to tar. Also, I would try something like 'time > find / |wc -l' on the target system just to see how long it takes to > walk the directory and how many files are there.
Thanks for all the suggestions and explanations to everyone who replied! For fun, here's the output of find / | wc -l: 24478753 real 490m35.602s user 0m21.013s sys 1m23.305s 25 million files! OMG. find took 8 hours to complete. Nice, hm? :-) I started another full backup on Friday 21:00 CET and it's still running, but it started to transfer files after a day or so, finally! Another box of the same customer has 2.5 files and took 29 hours for the first full backup. That means the 25 million box' full backup should be done within 12 days. :-) But if I understand correctly all future full backups will be faster. No idea what BackupPC will do after these 12 days, start directly with another full backup? Well, we will see... If that shouldn't work for some reason I will try these suggestions: a) Different profiles with aliases b) Different shares c) tar (or a combination of a, b, c) Unforunately almost all of the files are located in /home in thousands of subdirectories, so I can't just say "backup /home or /home/1, /home/2, /home/3 in another profile", but if tar won't work I guess I will have to dig deeper into the subdirectories for profiles/shares splitting. Regards Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
