Hi,
if your files are small,
you could consider imagebackup.
regards
juraj


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brenda Collins [mailto:brenda.collins AT US.ING DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:45 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Tuning to backup Millions of files
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I have an NT server that has an Optika application (Imaging)
> running on it.
> It has to search 2 million+ files nightly and ends up backing up about
> 100,000+ each night.  The problem is that it takes about 8
> hrs. to do this
> backup which is not acceptable.  Does anyone have any tuning
> parameters
> that may help this issue?  The files can not be split up
> among directories
> anymore than they are.  They want their cache files backed up
> so they copy
> them over to another directory and we back them up from there.  We are
> upgrading their hardware to see if that helps but if there is
> any tuning I
> can do on the TSM side, that would help also.
>
> Thanks,
> Brenda Collins,
> Sr. Storage Administrator
> ING
> 612-342-3839
>