Paul, others

Could you clarify the directive used to skip/not look for the nsr.dir in
each directory?   We do not use client side directives and I see no need
to have the client look for them.  Is the directive just:

<< "E:\" >>
ignore
<< "F:\" >>
ignore

to skip looking for this file on the E and F drive.

Thanks

Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:08:06 +0100, Paul Brears <paul AT IFL DOT NET> wrote:

>I've not seen a hard limit for the number of files but I have seen
performance problems with big
>file systems and they seem to get slower as the number of files grows.
>
>We've got a file system on a W2K server with over a 1 million small files
(mostly in their own small
>directories) and have had some problems with slow backups. (<100KB/s)
>
>We found the following thing out:
>1.    Networker was spending 40% of the time (as monitored by sysinternals
filemon) looking for
>nsr.dir in each directory.
>Putting a directive to ignore nsr.dir files gave us a significant (~20%)
performance increase
>backing up that filesystem.
><< "E:\" >>
>ignore
>
>2.    For reasons I don't yet understand 6.1.1 was also significantly
(~20%) faster than the 6.2
>client (I've not tried 6.1.3 on it yet)
>
>3.    Check the change journal size, the default will probably be too small
for a file system of
>that size and so it might not be using it for incrementals. (huge improvement)
>
>Once we'd got the backup times down the client became more reliable as well.
>
>Paul
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Howard Martin" <howard.martin AT EDS DOT COM>
>To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
>Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 10:03 AM
>Subject: Re: [Networker] Number of files backup for W2K
>
>
>I haven't seen a limit on the number of files in a saveset.
>Can you give more details on the problems ?
>
>
>On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:37:26 +0800, Robert Loh <robert AT SOFTSOURCE.COM DOT 
>SG>
>wrote:
>
>>Hi All
>>What is the maximum number of files that Networker 6.2 can backup for W2K
>>server under one saveset ?
>>We have 2.5 million of files in one directory always causing problem
>backing
>>up, the size is about 25GB only.
>>The saveset is the directory.
>>cheers..
>>Robert
>>
>>
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