You might want to consider OFM from StBernard, it definitely has an edge over
OTM.  Should run you about $600/license.  While not without issues, file
checkpointing capabilities of OFM are definitely better than that of OTM.

paulg

On Oct 30,  5:36pm, <Bruno.Bossier AT comparex DOT be> wrote:
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up a large amount of small files
> We have a server with a directory which contains over 3 million files for a
> total amount of nearly 150 Gb. We are trying to back this up in a
> reasonable amount of time (12 to 14 hours maximum). OTM is enabled. We have
> not succeeded so far. A lot of time is lost at the beginning of the backup
> when the backup is going through the directory structure to check all
> files. This takes several hours. The first we already did until now is to
> set the maximum cache size to 0 (unlimited). This stopped the errors we saw
> in the Windows eventlog when OTM is started and then aborted after 40
> minutes, then restarted again ....
>
> Can someone give some suggestions to speed up this backup ?
>
> Thanks,
> Bruno
>
>
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