Re: Backup/Restore

From: Richard Lynch (ceo_at_l-i-e.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:59:05 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Brian McCann" <bjmccann@gmail.com>

    Brian McCann wrote:
    > Hi all...I'm having a conceptual problem I can't get around and
    > was hoping someone can change my focus here. I've been backing up
    > roughly 6-8 million small files (roughly 2-4k each) using dump, but
    > restores take forever due to the huge number of files and directories.
    > Luckily, I haven't had to restore for an emergency yet...but if I
    > need to, I'm kinda stuck. I've looked at distributed file systems
    > like CODA, but the number of files I have to deal with will make it
    > choke. Can anyone offer any suggestions? I've pondered running
    > rsync, but am very worried about how long that will take...

    Do the files change a lot, or is it more like a few files added/changed
    every day, and the bulk don't change?

    If it's the latter, you could maybe get best performance from something
    like Subversion (a CVS derivative).

    Though I suspect rsync would also do well in that case.

    If a ton of those files are changing all the time, try doing a test on
    creating a tarball and then backing up the tarball. That may be a simple
    managable solution. There are probably other more complex solutions of
    which I am ignorant :-) 

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