atif wrote:

hello all.
one of our business requirements demands a huge filesystem ~ 250 GB.

250 gigabytes is now just an off-the-shelf drive that anyone can buy for
$250.

Does anyone here have any experience with backups/restores of a filesystem
that big?
Are there any issues anyone can think of that I should consider?
Also, we might be able to survive with 80GB fs. Any thoughts on that?
Thanks.

We backup 60 computers with filesystems that vary between 100 gb and
1.5 terabytes.   No problems with iether the backup or restores.
Paying for the tapes -- priceless!

                                               mht


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