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[Veritas-bu] [Resolution] RE: Backing up a filesystem with mi llions of small files [Resolution]

2003-10-30 21:46:34
Subject: [Veritas-bu] [Resolution] RE: Backing up a filesystem with mi llions of small files [Resolution]
From: Dwayne.Brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov (Brzozowski, Dwayne)
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:46:34 -0600
I will definitely have to try this. Thanks for the help!!!!


-djb

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NT leads to bluescreen..
bluescreen leads to downtime.. 
downtime leads to suffering...
NT is the path to the darkside... 
Powerful Unix is... 

Unix Jedi




-----Original Message-----
From: Simon, John [mailto:JSimon AT reliant DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:28 PM
To: Brzozowski, Dwayne
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] [Resolution] RE: Backing up a filesystem with
millions of small files [Resolution]


yes it should work on Solaris. I am not sure about restore times, as the
backup takes 10 hours ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Brzozowski, Dwayne [mailto:Dwayne.Brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:17 PM
To: Simon, John; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] [Resolution] RE: Backing up a filesystem with
millions of small files [Resolution]


can this file work with a Solaris client ? And does it affect the restore
times? thanks


Dwayne J. Brzozowski
Department of Veterans Affairs
Austin Automation center
(512)326-6728 work
dwayne.brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon, John [mailto:JSimon AT reliant DOT com]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:47 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] [Resolution] RE: Backing up a filesystem with
millions of small files [Resolution]


I talked to Veritas and they revealed this gem, seems to fix the problem:

On the aix client:
"touch /usr/openv/netbackup/dont_sort_dir"
This touch file has been known to fix backups with many small files and the
41 status code.


>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Simon, John  
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:10 PM
> To:   'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject:      Backing up a filesystem with millions of small files
> 
> I am trying to backup a new AIX system that has a JFS filesystem with
about 1-2 millions files, most smaller then 10k. We first were trying our
TSM server but TSM would give out of memory errors. So since we are phasig
TSM out we hooked up Netbackup and tried it, it seems bpbkar just starts
eating resources and after a few hours is taking like 25% of the system CPU
and not backing up. Any suggestions on backing up filesystems with millions
of small files?

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