Hi,
There is an NTFS filesystem in windows with 20 millions of small files less
than 20 KB each. The total size of the filesystem is less than 300GB.
I have not tried incremental backup, because that would be a nightmare.
Again, inc backup is not a good choice because the long restoration time is
not acceptable us.
I tested the snapshot image backup and satisfied with backup time. Now the
problem is how to perform the incremental for this image backup.
Unfortunately "incremental-by-date of last image" scans the whole files to
filter which files must be in the backup list and would take a tremendous
amount of time. This is not acceptable as well.
The ideal behavior that I expect from TSM is journal based incremental
backup for image which is apparently not supported by TSM 5.3.
more info:
-the change rate for this filesystem is about 20 thousands of files per day
-TSM version is 5.3

What do you recommend for this case? Please include TSM 6.1 featues if
exist.

Regards,
Mehdi Salehi