RE: [CentOS] slow usb hard disk performance.

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.