Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula limits

[Jesper K. <je...@kr...>]

Frank Sweetser wrote:
> Jesper Krogh wrote:
>> T. Horsnell wrote:
>>> I will be backing up maybe 70million files in one job.
>>> Am I approaching any Bacula/catalog limit on the number of files?
>>> What is the maximum number of files which Bacula can handle,
>>> and are there any other limits which we should know about?
>> You might be heading for problems during restore. The restore process
>> of building a virtual filesystem hierachy of the files cannot handle
>> this many. I've got around 24 million files in one fileset. That is not
>> restorable using this method. It works fine if I just restore by "jobid" 
>> or some of the restore methods that doesnt require the virtual 
>> filesystem hierachy to be build up and worked on.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what's the latest version that you've run into this problem 
> in?  2.4 has some serious performance improvements in building the file tree 
> over 2.2.

2.2.8 .. If that is the case, I might have a really good reason for
upgrading.

It was actually not in "building" the tree it went into problems.
Marking all the files also worked, but then I typed "done" and it just
hang with 100% cpu for over 12 hours.


Jesper
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Jesper