[Veritas-bu] Lots of files: Backup Performance
2000-05-19 16:33:43
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[Veritas-bu] Lots of files: Backup Performance |
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Michael Wei wei AT colltech DOT com |
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Fri, 19 May 2000 15:33:43 -0500 (CDT) |
A somewhat unrelated topic. If you have a choice to move your millions of
small files to a different type of storage system, move them to a Netapp.
Netapp NDMP backup handles large number of small files very well too.
--Mike
> From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Fri May 19 15:30:22 2000
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 07:01:34AM -0500, Rob Worman wrote:
> > (can anyone attest to the quality of the solaris FlashBack product?
> > I'd love to talk to someone with direct experience with it in
> > production...)
>
> Yes. One of our clients used it rather extensively. It was a fairly
> large site consisting of EMC boxes and E4500's as NFS servers. Large
> filesystems, lots of data, very tiny files...
>
> The product went through some significant revisions due to all of
> the bugs that they found, but all of the changes were rolled into the
> patchS0820364 patch, so be sure to apply that (or any newer ones that
> have come out since then).
>
> If you're curious about more, just let me know.
>
> Todd
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Mike Wei Collective Technologies, a Pencom Company
Email: wei AT colltech DOT com
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