On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:48:55AM -0500, Fazil Saiyed wrote:
> Hello,
> I misspoke, i did not realize that many files were in the saveset, i only 
> looked at saveset size, this issue regarding  large number of small files 
> has been around for long time, the only reasonable option might be 
> snapshots and\or NDMP backup ( i believe you can buy and use NDMP licence 
> for server file systems-please check).
> Thanks

NDMP isn't magic.  It's still going to do a filesystem traversal, and if
you want to restore individual files, it still has to send every
filename back to the backup server.

Multiple millions of files will make NDMP go slow as well.

-- 
Darren

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