I setup a file as a type 19, so I could check it's items from unix quickly. Not remembering this when it went production....
I just installed rdiff-backup on our system to make a mirrored and incremental backups of our system. http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/ When I first attempted to run it, it took almost 5 hours to backup one file. The problem was it had 180,000 records in it, which meant (since it's now a type 19), it was a directory with 180,000 files in it, which posed a minor issue. Since our system never SELECTed or SORTed the file, we never saw a slowdown, but man... Tracking the file down was fairly easy however. what I did was for each main account. I did (unix): du --max-depth=1 -b /accountlocation | tee /tmp/du_output What this did was give you a byte count of each directory and tee out the results to a file. You need to watch the information as it's displayed, when it stops for more than say 15-20 seconds (or you figure somethings up), write down the last filename displayed. Do this for each pause. When completed, vi (or your favorite viewer) the du_output file. search for the filenames you wrote down, the ones that follow are the problem childs. If you can capture your screen output then you can skip the tee. Once I converted my Type 19 back to a Type 30, it only took 10 minutes to copy. A lot better than 5 hours. Took a while to convert the file. I created a new file, copied all the items, deleted the old file renamed the new file to the old file. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
