> We are in the midst of a minor disaster-recovery and are finding out
> that it is taking a very long time to recover some directories that
have
> a large quantity of small text files (small = ~700 bytes, large
quantity
> = 40,000+).
>

We have many file systems which contain similar small files ( approx
20g and couple of million small files on Solaris 2.6 ) and now do raw
file system backups/recoverys to aid speed of recovery. Luckily there is
no requirement for restoring individual files. We got our disaster
recovery times down from 4 days down to 4 hours..
I'm hoping that the Solaris 9 jfs file systems will allow faster
restores of this type.


Andy

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