[Box Backup] Boxbackup deleted directories

[Jamie Neil]

Peter wrote:
> After some searching I found one directory where 
> 'ls -1 | wc -l' = 8178, all of them regular files.
> It takes up only 35mb of diskspace though.
> 
> Is this likely to cause a problem?
> 
> bbackupd consumes about 99% of the cpu, so it's busy doing something.

I've run into this problem, but on a much bigger scale (150,000 files in
one directory). I gave up on the backup after 3 days at 100% CPU
utilisation and just deleted most of the files (they weren't important).

See this thread:
http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/boxbackup/2006-February/002154.html

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