Just curious as to what everyone else does out their for their VERY
large filesystem backups.  

Our document imaging file server has gradually been increasing in size
over the past year, and is now up to 21+ million files.   Data size is
under 1TB, so size isn't an issue, it's simply the 21 million files - it
takes 48 hours to backup. 

We have a couple of other file servers that are large (3 - 5 million),
but nothing this size. 

Are people using some kind of snapshot system, or something else? 

TIA

David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

 

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