Hi,

Here's my advice:

1. Define virtual mountpoints representing no more than 250,000 files.
2. Develop a recovery plan which prioritizes which directories get recovered
first, second, etc.

Jim



> ----------
> From:         Steve Watson[SMTP:steve.watson AT XINETICA DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Wednesday, June 09, 1999 9:02 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Large number of objects
>
> I am working on a system which long term will store 10 million files on
> SSA RAID
>  - yes that's million !
>
> We obviously will not want to execute incremental style backups against
> these fi
> les due to the delays in scanning for date/time changes during this type
> of back
> up, but we will still have a fairly large number to backup on a daily
> basis - ap
> prox 25,000 avg file size 200k.
>
> Does anyone have experience of these kinds of voumes, or any performance
> stats o
> n anything that can be scaled to give us some idea of what kind of
> performance w
> e can expect.
>
> I suspect we will have to do some testing sooner than later.
>
> Regards
> Steve Watson.
> Technical Consultant. Xinetica Ltd
>