We are having a similar problem, except with NT clients. Do you know if
this fix would work for NT clients as well?

Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Simon,
John
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:47 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] [Resolution] RE: Backing up a filesystem with
millions of small files [Resolution]


I talked to Veritas and they revealed this gem, seems to fix the
problem:

On the aix client:
"touch /usr/openv/netbackup/dont_sort_dir"
This touch file has been known to fix backups with many small files and
the 41 status code.


>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Simon, John  
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:10 PM
> To:   'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject:      Backing up a filesystem with millions of small files
> 
> I am trying to backup a new AIX system that has a JFS filesystem with 
> about 1-2 millions files, most smaller then 10k. We first were trying 
> our TSM server but TSM would give out of memory errors. So since we 
> are phasig TSM out we hooked up Netbackup and tried it, it seems 
> bpbkar just starts eating resources and after a few hours is taking 
> like 25% of the system CPU and not backing up. Any suggestions on 
> backing up filesystems with millions of small files?

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