Jorge,

Have you tried looking into the savevg or backup command?

Thanks
Vince



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Jorge Amil
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:06 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [ADSM-L] million files backup

Hi Jim,

thank you very much for your answer.

Actually we are doing what you say. Filesystem .tar. It was a great solution 
when the filesystem was 500Gb-1Tb but actually our filesystem is 14Tb. The
 tar/gzip command took 10-12 days... :(

So we need another aproach

Thanks
Jorge

> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:47:24 -0600
> From: jschneider AT USSCO DOT COM
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] million files backup
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>
> Jorge,
>
> On Unix systems:
> I've done it in two steps.  Create a tar file of the file system and zip
> it.  Create a second file listing all the files in the tarred directory.
> The tar extract command allows single files to be recalled if the
> absolute path name is available.
>
> I've used this to backup a Sterling Commerce flat file database with
> multiple subdirectories holding more than 1.5 million files.  The
> tar/gzip command took 5 or 6 hours for a 500 GB file system.
>
> I have not tried to do this on a Windows system.
>
> Jim Schneider
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu] On Behalf 
> Of
> Jorge Amil
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:30 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject: [ADSM-L] million files backup
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than
> contains million files?
>
> Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS filesystem and is not
> supported.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jorge
>