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Re: [ADSM-L] incremental backup of many millions of very small files

2010-06-24 18:14:12
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] incremental backup of many millions of very small files
From: Leandro Mazur <leandromazur AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:12:45 -0300
Does anybody had experienced this same situation in Linux ? We have 1 server
with around 50 M files....

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT vcu DOT 
edu>wrote:

> 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
> >
>



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