diff --git a/plugins/localdump/couchdb2.sh b/plugins/localdump/couchdb2.sh
index 997989337beefdf6f257bee6224a49751b4ba0fb..1daa1098d569c0301318787dbb24cef19e5ef73e 100755
--- a/plugins/localdump/couchdb2.sh
+++ b/plugins/localdump/couchdb2.sh
@@ -80,13 +80,12 @@ function _getDblist(){
    _couchapi GET _all_dbs | sed 's#\"#\n#g' | grep -Ev "^(\[|\,|\])$" | grep -v _replicator | grep -v _global_changes
 }
 
+# UNUSED
 # get value update_seq of given couchdb name
-function _getDbSeq(){
-  # _couchapi GET $1 | sed 's#,\"#\n"#g' | egrep -v "^(\[|\,|\])$" | grep update_seq | cut -f 4 -d '"'
-  _couchapi GET "$1" | sed 's#,\"#\n"#g' | grep -Ev "^(\[|\,|\])$" | grep update_seq | cut -f 4 -d '"' | cut -f 1 -d '-'
-}
-
-
+# function _getDbSeq(){
+#   # _couchapi GET $1 | sed 's#,\"#\n"#g' | egrep -v "^(\[|\,|\])$" | grep update_seq | cut -f 4 -d '"'
+#   _couchapi GET "$1" | sed 's#,\"#\n"#g' | grep -Ev "^(\[|\,|\])$" | grep update_seq | cut -f 4 -d '"' | cut -f 1 -d '-'
+# }
 
 # active curl prozesses
 function curlCount(){
@@ -104,6 +103,13 @@ function wait4curlcount(){
   test $iCount -gt $iContinue && wait4curlcount $iContinue
 }
 
+# optimized curl requests to get metadata from all databases
+# used in _doBackupOfSingleInstance
+# it returns a JSON line for each database
+#
+# param  integer  iChunksize  count urls per curl command
+# param  integer  iParallel   count of curl processes
+# param  string   dblistfile  path+file to list of database
 function reqCombined(){
   typeset -i local iChunksize; iChunksize=$1
   typeset -i local iParallel;  iParallel=$2
@@ -112,7 +118,6 @@ function reqCombined(){
   typeset -i iCounter=0
   cmdline=
 
-  # for mydb in $dblist
   for mydb in $( cat $dblistfile )
   do 
 
@@ -123,7 +128,8 @@ function reqCombined(){
       if [ $iCounter -ge $iChunksize ]; then
 
           curl -s $cmdline &
-          # warte, solange Zahl curl Prozesse kleiner Maximum
+
+          # wait untile count of curl proecses is lower maximum
           wait4curlcount $iParallel
 
           iCounter=0
@@ -185,7 +191,7 @@ function doBackup(){
       echo "--- instance: $COUCHDB_INSTANCE"
       if curl --head -X GET "$COUCH_URL" 2>/dev/null | grep "^HTTP.* 200 "; then
         echo OK, connected.
-        sleep 2
+        sleep 1
         _doBackupOfSingleInstance
 
       else
@@ -216,15 +222,18 @@ function _doBackupOfSingleInstance(){
     test -d "$_dir" || (echo "creating $_dir" ; mkdir -p "$_dir" )
   done
 
+  local iChunksize=100
+  local iParallel=6
+
+  local sSequenceCurrent
+  local sSequenceLast
+
   echo "--- $( date ) Get list of all databases"
-  # get a list of current databases
-  # dblist=$( _getDblist )
   local dblistfile 
   dblistfile="/tmp/dblist_${COUCHDB_INSTANCE}"
   _getDblist >"${dblistfile}"
 
-  # typeset -i iDbTotal=$( echo "$dblist" | wc -l )
-  typeset -i iDbTotal=$( cat "$dblistfile" | wc -l )
+  typeset -i iDbTotal=$( wc -l < "$dblistfile")
   typeset -i iDb=0        # counter for number of database in the loop
   typeset -i iDbCount=0   # counter for backed up databases
   echo "${COUCHDB_INSTANCE} has $iDbTotal databases"
@@ -242,7 +251,6 @@ function _doBackupOfSingleInstance(){
       dbname=${dbname/%.couchdbdump.gz//}
       dbname=${dbname/\/}
 
-      # if ! grep "^${dbname}" <<< "$dblist" >/dev/null; then
       if ! grep "^${dbname}" "${dblistfile}"  >/dev/null; then
               SEQFILE=${ARCHIVE_DIR}/${COUCHDB_INSTANCE}/seq/__seq__${dbname}
               SECURITYFILE=${ARCHIVE_DIR}/${COUCHDB_INSTANCE}/security/__security__${dbname}.json
@@ -252,7 +260,6 @@ function _doBackupOfSingleInstance(){
               mv "${SECURITYFILE}" "${ARCHIVE_DIR2}/security/"
       fi
   done
-  # done | tee /tmp/couch_archive_${COUCHDB_INSTANCE}.txt
 
   echo
   echo "--- $( date ) DUMP databases"
@@ -261,36 +268,24 @@ function _doBackupOfSingleInstance(){
   echo "      ARCHIVE ${ARCHIVE_DIR}/${COUCHDB_INSTANCE}"
   echo
 
-  # TODO: optimze creation of hash with database and sequence id
-  local iChunksize=100
-  local iParallel=6
-  echo "--- $( date ) - Get database meta infos ... max $iParallel parralel curl requests sending $iChunksize database urls per connection"
-  seq=$( reqCombined $iChunksize $iParallel "$dblistfile" | jq -r ' [ .db_name, .update_seq ] | @csv ' | tr -d '"')
-  # seq=$( reqCombined $iChunksize $iParallel "$dblistfile" | jq -r ' [ .db_name, .update_seq ] | @csv ' | tr -d '"' | tr ',' ' '  | awk '{ sub(/-.*/, "\1", $2 ); print $1 " " $2  }' )
-  echo "$seq" | head
-
+  echo "----- $( date ) - Get database meta infos ... max $iParallel parralel curl requests sending $iChunksize database urls per process"
+  seq=$( reqCombined $iChunksize $iParallel "$dblistfile" | jq -r ' [ .db_name, .update_seq ] | @csv ' | tr -d '"' | tr ',' ' '  | awk '{ sub(/-.*/, "", $2 ); print $1 "," $2  }' )
+  #                                                                                             ^        ^           ^                    ^                              ^
+  #                                                     db_name + update_seq in a single line --+        |           |                    |   and back: space to comma --+
+  #                                                                                      delete quotes --+           |                    +-- remove string after first minus char
+  #                                                                                comma to space (for awk values) --+
+  # the result is ... echo "$seq" | head -3
+  # _users,7688
+  # candidate-00649860284626638ac6fd12bf000df5,40
+  # candidate-04561cddbd0fa305714b48a57929d8b4,3
+
+  echo "----- $( date ) - reading sequence ids..."
   declare -A aSeq
-
-  echo "--- $( date ) - reading sequence ids..."
   for line in $( echo "$seq" )
   do
-    IFS="," read -r db seqvalue <<< "$line"
-    IFS="-" read -r seqid dummy <<< "$seqvalue"
-    # seqid=$( echo $seqvalue | cut -f 1 -d '-')
+    IFS="," read -r db seqid <<< "$line"
     aSeq+=([$db]=$seqid)
   done
-  # for line in $( echo "$seq" )
-  # do
-  #   IFS=" " read -r db seqid <<< "$line"
-  #   echo "... $line ... $db - $seqid"
-  #   aSeq+=([$db]=$seqid)
-  # done
-
-  dbname="_users"
-
-  # echo "Seq ID von $dbname: ${aSeq[$dbname]}"
-  # echo
-  # exit
 
   for dbname in $( cat "$dblistfile" )
   do
@@ -303,13 +298,8 @@ function _doBackupOfSingleInstance(){
 
     # sSequenceCurrent=$(_getDbSeq "${dbname}")
     sSequenceCurrent="${aSeq[$dbname]}"
-
     sSequenceLast=$(cat "${SEQFILE}" 2>/dev/null | cut -f 1 -d '-')
-#    sSequenceLast=`cat ${SEQFILE} 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\n'`
 
-    # echo
-    # echo "update_seq --+-- current [${sSequenceCurrent}]" 
-    # echo "             +-- backup  [${sSequenceLast}]"
     if [ "${sSequenceCurrent}" = "${sSequenceLast}" ] && [ -f "$ARCHIVFILE" ]; then
       echo "SKIP: still on sequence ${sSequenceLast}"