Hi Jim,

thank you very much for your answer.

Actually we are doing what you say. Filesystem .tar. It was a great solution 
when the filesystem was 500Gb-1Tb but actually our filesystem is 14Tb. The
 tar/gzip command took 10-12 days... :(

So we need another aproach

Thanks
Jorge

> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:47:24 -0600
> From: jschneider AT USSCO DOT COM
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] million files backup
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> 
> Jorge,
> 
> On Unix systems:
> I've done it in two steps.  Create a tar file of the file system and zip
> it.  Create a second file listing all the files in the tarred directory.
> The tar extract command allows single files to be recalled if the
> absolute path name is available.
> 
> I've used this to backup a Sterling Commerce flat file database with
> multiple subdirectories holding more than 1.5 million files.  The
> tar/gzip command took 5 or 6 hours for a 500 GB file system.  
> 
> I have not tried to do this on a Windows system.
> 
> Jim Schneider
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu] On Behalf 
> Of
> Jorge Amil
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:30 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject: [ADSM-L] million files backup
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than
> contains million files?
> 
> Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS filesystem and is not
> supported.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Jorge
>