[CentOS] slow usb hard disk performance.

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 at 9:53am, Bowie Bailey wrote

> I just dropped in on this thread about Amanda.  I'm currently looking
> for a backup to disk solution for a new system and am curious how well
> Amanda would work.  I've got a large raid partition that I want to
> backup onto a removable hard drive.  The tricky part is that the
> filesystem is made up of over a million tiny (2-3k) files.  Would
> Amanda be able to deal with that type of filesystem?

Amanda is, at its base, a backup scheduler.  It uses dump or tar to 
actually get the bits off the disk.  So, if you can tar your partition, 
amanda can handle it.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University