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[Veritas-bu] Lots of files: Backup Performance

2000-05-19 16:33:43
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Lots of files: Backup Performance
From: Michael Wei wei AT colltech DOT com
Date: 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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