Virtual server backup time

Virtualmin
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Hello there,

I have encountered a strange problem, the backup loading time has jumped from 1minute to almost 20 minutes like you can see here below:

Local file /home/bragginn/backup/2011-08-04-23:52 2 domains 04/Aug/2011 23:52 17:11 164.84 MB Yes
Local file /home/bragginn/backup/2011-08-03-04:00 3 domains 03/Aug/2011 04:00 11:59 183.02 MB Yes
Local file /home/bragginn/backup/2011-08-02-16:00 3 domains 02/Aug/2011 16:00 01:22 161.82 MB Yes

In the latest one I had deleted my newest virtual server since i thought maybe it was related to it.
It seems to stall for that long time while executing this command:

Copying Apache log files …

and while doing so the websites become almost completely unresponsive…

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Regards,
Gilli

P.s. Im running Virtualmin GPL, latest version

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Howdy,

My guess is that one particular Virtual Server has grown pretty large, and is taking a long time to backup.

Alternatively, I’ve occasionally seen issues where if a given directory were to get a whole bunch of small files in it, hundreds of thousands of them – things can really slow down as the filesystem fights to process all those files.\

Something like that can happen in, say, a session or tmp directory.

You may want to review your various Virtual Servers, and see if any are particularly large, as well as if any have a directory containing a particularly large number of files.

-Eric