Re: [Veritas-bu] Over 2 million files to backup

Hi Kevin,
According to symantec backup happens fast if there are few large files. Slow backup occurs when disk contains thousands of small files( ur scenarios has ~2M files) which is huge. Multistreaming can help but I suggest using raw backup as it has helped me out(give better performance than normal bkp strategy). I have multiple client with tons of files on them.

But for using raw bkp you shoud have exclusive access to the partitions .Below is the eg:
SYNTAX
/\\.\C:
/\\.\D:
Hope this works for you too. Reply on improvement.

Regards
Nitin Bhosale

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Over 2 million files to backup - how long?

If you have multiple drives (D: / E: etc etc) you can try multistreaming. NBU will take each one of those drive letters and create child jobs and will run each child job simultaneously as compared to sequential.

Thanks
Dan

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From: kjbaumann [mailto:netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:53 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Over 2 million files to backup - how long?

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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