On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Gregory Demilde wrote:

> Snapshoting is nice but you need to think about restores...  in case
> of file servers 99,999% of your restores will be for a couple of
> files.
>
> Only solution is or flashbackup or start to use wilcards (and exclude
> lists) in your backup selections.
>
> Besides always think about the processing power you have. Network
> traffic tends to consume more CPU than FC. And backups tend to use
> everythings that's left.
>
> Greg
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Also if you have too many files in your file list with hardlinks, you 
cannot back it up with a 32bit host (Linux kills the bpbkar process at 
3.0gb) due to the 3/1 split.

Justin.
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