> We're planning on upgrading an old E450 with Solaris 8 running NW
> 7.2.x with a new V440, but we're debating which OS to run. Most of
> our remaining Sun boxes still run Solaris 8, it's been nice and stable
> for years. We do have some Solaris 9 boxes, and I seem to recall that
> 9 made network and IO performance boosts over 8. But it might be time
> to dip our toes into the Solaris 10 waters.
>
> Our setup is a Netapp FAS960 with around 12Tb of data, backed up via
> NFS currently, a Notes server, plus some other small misc boxes to
> backup. We've looked into NDMP backups in the past, but the limits
> on restores being 10,240 files or less for Indexed backups really just
> kills using NDMP for us.
What's your filer OS? I thought the limit was 1 million files even back
on 7.1? Of course even 1M files may not be sufficient for you, but it's
a lot better than 10K.
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Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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