Jason Helfman wrote:

> yeah, on a few occasions i've dealt with this. it would be hard to 
> access the system directly in each case.
>
> split up the files into some soft of directory structure.
>
>
> WILLIAMS, KRISTOPHER L wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>  
>>
>> We have a client that is failing because there are too many small 
>> files in one directory. There are apprx. 1 ? 2 million files in two 
>> different directories that are causing the failures. The system is a 
>> Win2k server using NetBackup 5.0, master and media servers are also 
>> Win2K with NBU 5.0. Has anyone had this problem and found a good 
>> resolution?
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Kris
>>
>
Don't know if it'll work on a window box, but from a discution on this list
a few months ago on the subject:


touch /usr/openv/netbackup/dont_sort_dir

HTH,

Gregg

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