> -----Original Message----- > From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 6:00 PM > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up many small files > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I see incremental backup times in the 300-400 minutes range every day > on this > > particular machine. A full backup is about 28 GB and each daily > incremental > > backup is in the 150-250 MB range. The incrementals take like forever > (well, > > about 6-7 hrs each). > > > > Is there *anything* I can do to tweak the backup-speed of BPC in > order to > > speed up a backup from this machine that contains hundreds of > thousands of > > small files? Maybe something on the other machine? > > Is it split into some small number of top-level directories? If so, > you might add additional 'hosts', each configured to point to the same > target machine via ClientAliasName, but backing up different > directories. This may not save overall time unless the total number > of files is causing the directory read to run out of RAM and swap, but > it will let you skew the days where each part does a full.
That's plan B. I read about this strategy on the archived post from Markus. It's basically /home and everything in it that's being backed up. There are about thirtyish users on this client and the instrument data gets saved in each user's homefolder. -- /Sorin
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