No, because you're pulling data off of 10 separate physical drives. It's
likely to be significantly faster.

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
  Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Dearman, Richard
>Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:46 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup
>
>Wouldn't the backup take close to the same amount of time has using one
>mount point.  Because the TSM client on that one server still had to go
>through 15 million files whether its doing it in one session or 10
>sessions.
>
>I am experiencing the same problem of an imaging system.  I am 
>trying to
>go the snapshot image route of the 12 millions 300Gb of files and
>sending them to disk storage pool then off to 3592 tapes nightly.  It
>will grow to 1Tb of the next year.  I'm not sure how imaging will work
>on such a large file system.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
>Behalf Of
>TSM_User
>Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:32 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: 15,000,000 + files on one directory backup
>
>I replied to the list about using windows mount points. A 
>reply was sent
>back about it being the opposit of what they wanted. Well I had this
>thought.
>
>If you have an imaging system (or any other application) that can only
>use one drive letter why not use mount points for that drive.  Have a
>server with 10 drives with 100 GB each (D: - M:)  Then use mount points
>to get all 1 TB of space behind the D:\.  The application will then use
>the D:\ alone.  Mean while you can run the backup on all 10 drives.
>
>For details on how to set this up you need to consult the 
>Microsoft doc.
>There is plenty on MS's website.
>
>Of course if the system is already setup then you'd need to add the
>drives and mount points.  Then move the folders under those mount
>points.
>
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