"White; Steve" wrote:
> 
> Has anyone managed to come up with any tricks for speeding up
> backup/recovery of NetWare clients (non-target) when you have hundreds of
> thousands of small files?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Steve White

I used the suggestion Bob Bakh (Note: Thanks Bob) gave previously on
this list, then posted it here because it worked so well for me:

http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/netbackup-serve/cache/160.html

Doing this involves changing your servers over to 'target'
configuration, it also gives the greatest benefit if your data resides
is scattered to at least a couple volumes. Doing this has some
unintended consequences. When I changed one large NetWare fileserver the
speed improvement was amazing, as I changed over the others the speed
improved, but not by as much. Instead of NetWare being the bottleneck,
my new bottleneck is the drives and network. Thus, I need to muck with
MPX and network settings.


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