Hello all, I need some ideas. I have a backup server that contains 10 ext3 file systems each with 12 million files scattered randomly over 4000 directories. The files average size is 1MB. Every day I expect to get 20 or so requests for files from this archive. The files were not stored in any logical structure that I can use to narrow down the search. This will be different moving forward but it does not help me for the old data. Additionally, every day data is added and old data is removed to make space. So, now that you know a little about the environment, I need ideas on how to find the file I want to restore fast. Using find on the partition is slow. I thought about using find and piping the output to a file. I started it 50 minutes ago and it still isn't done on a single partition. Plus the file is currently about 1.3GB and how would I maintain such a file? Would putting the file names + path in a database be faster? As always, any help would be greatly appreciated. --- Will Y. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
