It was strongly dependent on the number of files in each node filespace.
Anything with more than 3 million or so files we did using a fresh
incremental backup rather than an export, because those tended to take
more than a day to perform.

On 03/27/2013 12:30 PM, Swartz, Jerome wrote:

Thanks Skylar,

What was the average time for your node exports? I will need to factor that in 
as well.

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