Is it possible to break up the filesystem(s) with
VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT options? This will let you break down the
problem into smaller chunks, and possibly run your 'dsmc'
processes out of cron, rather than via the scheduler.

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Gerald Wichmann wrote:

>Has anyone come up with any good strategies on backing up a file server with
>millions of small (1KB-10KB) files? Currently we have a system with 50GB of
>them that takes about 40 hours to backup. Many of the files change..
>
>I m wondering if anyone has anything in place that works well for this sort
>of situation..
>
>Something like this or perhaps something I haven t thought of:
>
>develop script that will tar/compress the files into a single file and back
>that single file up daily. Perhaps even search the file system by date and
>only backup files that have changed since the last backup (this seems like
>it wouldn t be any faster then simply backing them up though)
>
>