On Thu, 3 May 2001, White, Steve wrote:

>Has anyone managed to come up with any tricks for speeding up
>backup/recovery of NetWare clients (non-target) when you have hundreds of
>thousands of small files?  

We use only target backups for the Novell disks. The only non-target
backup we do is for the NDS, since only non-target enables restoring a
specific object.

We also changed the default values in \sys\openv\netback\bp.ini
for the following parameters:

List_Files_Timeout
Time_Overlap
Clear_Archive_Bit_Incr_Wait

We multiply those defaults by 10 for all Novell servers, and by 100 to
our main server, which is a stronger machine. We've been doing this
since V 3.1 when we bought NetBackup. We are now on V3.4 . (I can only
imagine how much time Veritas didn't change those defaults).



        Miriam


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