[Networker] Large quantity of small text files

Howdy,

We are in the midst of a minor disaster-recovery and are finding out
that it is taking a very long time to recover some directories that have
a large quantity of small text files (small = ~700 bytes, large quantity
= 40,000+).

Networker version is 6.1.3, server is HP-UX 11i, client is Solaris 8,
UFS filesystems.  We use client-side compression (to reduce network
traffic).  Tape technology is AIT-3.

It took about 20 minutes to restore one directory that contained about
40,000 of these small text files, which totaled about 60 Mbyte - it
normally takes about 3 minutes to backup the directory, if that.
Normally we can recover data in the range of 4Mbytes - 8Mbytes per
second.

Is this the generally accepted behavior of Networker, or should I be
seeing faster recover times of a large quantity of small text files,
when going the other way - backups - take much less time?


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Craig Ruefenacht
UNIX Systems Administrator
USANA Health Sciences
http://www.usana.com

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