Sorry for the lack of clarification.  I was talking about regular TSM and
nodes with millions of objects. Across my 5-servers, I have 10-nodes with
>20M and the highest is 97M.



From:
Lindsay Morris <lindsay AT TSMWORKS DOT COM>
To:
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:
06/24/2010 11:16 AM
Subject:
Re: [ADSM-L] incremental backup of many millions of very small files
Sent by:
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



You say "Been there, done that". You mean with Fastback, not TSM?
When you talk about NQR, No Query Restore, I don't think you're talking
about Fastback anymore.

--------------------
Lindsay Morris
CEO, TSMworks
Tel. 1-859-539-9900
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
<zforray AT vcu DOT edu>wrote:

> Been there - done that - went through a complete restore that took days
> (could not do NQR for some of it).
>
> Why is journaling "not feasible"?
>
> I have a Windows box with 97M total files (including offsite copy) that
> uses journaling and backs up every day.  Granted, it takes 7-hours and
> uses the minimum memory model (the box is still 2K3 32-bot with 4GB RAM)
>
>
>
> From:
> Mehdi Salehi <ezzobad AT GOOGLEMAIL DOT COM>
> To:
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date:
> 06/24/2010 09:05 AM
> Subject:
> [ADSM-L] incremental backup of many millions of very small files
> Sent by:
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
>
>
> Hi,
> Can TSM Fastback be a good solution to backup an NTFS filesystem (about
> 500GB) with tens of millions of files? The daily increment of this
> filesystem is about 10-15 GB. Currently we use full daily image backups
> with
> b/a client. Because incremental (even journaling) is not feasible and
> furthermore restore would take even days, I wonder whether the
block-level
> incremental of FastBack can help in this way?
>
> Thanks so much
>