[CentOS] slow usb hard disk performance.
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17 at duke.eduTue Dec 6 16:46:50 UTC 2005
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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
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