How to make find faster?

Question

linux

It is required to find all json files in the directories and pack them into an archive. There are about 100 thousand of them.
Now it all works through the command:

find /var/lib/pterodactyl/volumes/ -regex '.*\(.json\)' -size -200000k -exec tar -rvf /back.tar {} \;

But this is done very slowly, about 1 file per second, I've been waiting for 2 days, but it's still being packed, is there a way to speed it all up?

Answer 1

I would break the task into two stages - first you collect findall the paths to the files, then you set the archiver on the resulting list. And why -regex, which probably gives an overhead, if you can just search by mask?

Answer 2

instead execuse xargs- profit every
200 times. Will acceleration suit you 200 times?

Answer 3

find /var/lib/pterodactyl/volumes/ -type f - name '*.json' --size -200000k -exec tar -rvf /back.tar {} \;
Maybe it will be faster