On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, kjbaumann wrote:

>
> All,
>
> One of my windows servers has 2,162,516 files taking up 100 GB and it has 
> taken 18 hours to backup.
>
> Is there a way to improve this?  Or is there something I can check to see if 
> there is an issue?
>
> We are running NB Ent Server 5.1mp5 on a Windows 2000 server.
>
> Thank you.
>
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Primary tool to backup a lot of files is:

Flashbackup

But 2.0 million isn't THAT many where if you have a host on gigabit, fast
disks and keep the filesystem defragmented it should not take that long.

When I had problems backing up lots of files, (30-50 million++) on solaris
I used FlashBackup and I cut it down from 6-8 days to about 8-12 hours.

Justin.





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