[SOLVED] backup directory - should I limit the number of files?

[OneCD]

Hello.

My backup NZB directory currently has 42,020 items in it. I only keep these for duplicate detection.

Is there a performance penalty for keeping this many files? Should I regularly delete files? Older than 12 months? Or a maximum of 10,000?

Thank you.

[safihre]

Shouldn't be a problem, we only check it with duplicate-detection.
In that case we only do a filename-exists check (no special hash-calculation) so it will be really fast anyway!
Besides that SAB ignores the folder

[OneCD]

Thanks @safihre.

[OneCD]

Maybe I can just keep the files names but with zero-byte files? Would duplicate detection still work?

[OneCD]

Quick follow-up to this: I finally got around to checking if zero-byte files work for the purpose of duplicate detection - they do.

So, I zero'ed all the existing files in the NZB backup path with:

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for f in /media/downloads/sabnzbd/nzb/backup/*; do truncate -s0 "$f"; done

Which took me from:

48076 Files (3.4 GiB)

down to:

48076 Files (0 B)

[safihre]

Lol!