Guess again.  It would probably take two weeks just to get a listing of 9.5
million files in a single filespace.

> ----------
> From:         Carl Makin[SMTP:Carl.Makin AT IPAUSTRALIA.GOV DOT AU]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Thursday, June 04, 1998 9:19 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Anyone else having server database contention problems?
>
> > Author: Bill Quintrell <Bill_Quintrell AT PROVIDENTCOMPANIES DOT COM>
>
>
>
> > Not to start a contest (our record is 52 hours for one incremental
> backup),
> > what are some of the larger ADSM server databases - i.e. number of
> objects
> > managed?
>
> I killed one of our backups after 4 days, it had done around 60% of 400Gb
> containing 9.5 Million 40Kb(average) TIFF images in 53 filesystems on one
> big RAID box. (Aix 4.2.1, ADSM 3)
>
> I'm going to try the multiple backups together script idea posted earlier
> to
> see if I can speed it up.  We currently estimate that it would take 2
> weeks
> to restore the box from scratch. :(
>
> That ADSM server manages backups for 142 filesystems on Aix, Solaris,
> FreeBSD, NT and Win95 totalling 853Gb raw data (and increasing).
>
>
> Carl.
>