On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 01:14:25AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> Anyone have any tips on how to effeciently backup Maildir systems with millions
> of files? I am pondering switching the company mail server over to Maildir.
> It's a very large and busy system. We have had situations before where there
> were millions of files to be backed up which took many days or perhaps even
Above and beyond the comments of the other people wrt whether it's worth backing
up in this way, I'm told that something like the dump command may more efficiently
deal with large numbers of small files because it forks off multiple processes rather
than serializes as other products/programs may do.
Then again, many millions of file system lookup are probably going to hose
your system for a long long time.
Regards.
