I have a Win2k server with over 3.5 million tiny files on it comprising
about 200GB. (not by my choice or design)

I see from the archives that older versions of the client had problems
with large file systems structured like this.  I am using 7.1.x, and my
backup times are over 24 hours only for this client.  My Networker
server is a windows server.

Any suggestions on improving the performance here?  I have a lot of
options available, but I can't skip the millions of tiny files, nor
require that users tar/zip up these directories of files.  

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