there maybe a trade off with a selective backup of that filesystem or an
archive since there's no compare operations associated there. You may have
to do some benchmarking though to prove it.. thanks!.

--Justin Richard Bleistein
Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing)
Desk: (856) 566 - 3485
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                      Mark Trancygier
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We are currently having problems performing incremental backups on a file
system that has a large amount of files. The daily changes to this file
system are small so we are only sending approximately 5 - 10 gig per backup
however, since there are around 3,000,000 files to examine, the backup
takes about 10 - 13 hours to complete.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle incremental backups of
file systems that contain a large number of I-nodes ?


Client:  AIX 7026-B80
Server AIX 7040-671




Thanks,
Mark.