You don't have to break them into different filesystems, but it will help if 
you break them into subfolders, then setup the backup with different savesets 
for each folder. For example, if you wanted 8 savestreams:

Folder: ac
Folder: df
Folder: gi
Folder: jl
Folder: mo
Folder: pr
Folder: su
Folder: vw
Folder: xz

Then setup a saveset of
\ac
\df
\gi
\jl
\mn
\pr
\su
\vw
\xz

That should decrease your savetime.

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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Ken Ciolek
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 4:36 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Best Method to backup 3.8T Home Folder with 
> Networker?
> 
> Have you thought about AVAMAR and dedup the datam
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: eudonj <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:14:18
> To: <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> Subject: [Networker] Best Method to backup 3.8T Home Folder with Networker?
> 
> Hello,
> I have recently inherited a Networker 7.5.1 enviroment with a 3.8T 3600 user 
> home folder that recides
> on an NS480 with a fiber attached L700 (7drives LTO3 ,500 slots) Tape Library 
> to use to back it up.
> The problem is that no matter how my team has tried to back it up, it takes 
> 30+ hours. I am wondering
> if anyone else out there has a simular config that might be willing to save 
> us some brain damage of
> retrying every method under the sun, currently we have 3600(1 per user) 
> savesets running NDMP, which
> is not great but we atleast get some sucess.  My other teammembers state that 
> trying to do it as 1
> saveset just timeouts or crashes at 30+ hours and never finishes. We are 
> currently using checkpoints
> to do the daily INC then a weekly full to tape but can't seem to get it in to 
> a <23 hr window.
> Oh and the obvious of breaking them into different file systems has been shot 
> down.
> Thanks
> 
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