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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Performance


From: Dave Howorth
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Performance
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:25:25 +0000
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Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 2/13/07, Dave Howorth <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Does anybody know of an alternative that performs better?
>>
>> I have a filesystem with millions of hard links and so far rdiff-backup
>> is the fastest thing I've found, even though it is slow.
> 
> If you have millions of anything, then the filesystem selection
> probably matters more than the backup software.  Reiser3 is known to
> have been specifically tuned to handle huge numbers of small files.
> (It was tuned to be a imap mail server with each msg being a
> standalone file.).

Yes, I use reiser3 :)

Cheers, Dave




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