Well, Andrew wins for the funniest description of my current situation, or
rather my client's.
I hope Microsoft is listening...this is where Mr. Gates is supposed to say,
WOW, giving Veritas reserved hooks for their filesystem would be a GREAT move
for my customers...let's do that right away...
Thank you Mr. Gates, I can't wait for its arrival!
Alright, I'm done.
Thanks all!
David
Quoting "Fabbro, Andrew P" <Fabbro.Andrew AT cnf DOT com>:
> In my experience, you are are up a biologically polluted creek without
> ample
> means of muscle-powered transportation. You are scatalogically abandoned
> by
> Dame Fortune. You are between a geological formation and a difficult
> situation. Etcetera: large file systems with zillions of small files are a
> pain.
>
> There are three solutions:
>
> - raw volume backups. This works great, unless you need to restore, say,
> just one file ;)
> You can only restore the whole volume. If you have some alternate restore
> staging area where you can blast all the data back, cherry pick what you
> want, and then blow it away, this might be an option. Or if this is just a
> disaster recovery backup, then perhaps raw volume backups are what you
> want.
> But if it's home directories, probably not.
>
> - change your data management/business practices. If it's Windows, I'm
> guessing this is home directories, in which case this isn't really an
> option. If it's some sort of data store, then perhaps you can
> zip/tar/archive/etc. older files to reduce the quantity of files.
>
> - FlashBackup. Unfortunately, FlashBackup isn't available for Windows.
> Rumor is 2003.
>
> --
> Drew Fabbro
> fabbro.andrew AT cnf DOT com
> Desk: 503-450-3374 Cell: 503-701-0469
> "There is no such word as 'maturity'. There
> is only 'maturing' and 'dead'." -- Bruce Lee
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