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[Veritas-bu] Checking to see if millions of files are backed up?

2007-03-26 17:35:37
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Checking to see if millions of files are backed up?
From: jpiszcz.backup at gmail.com (Justin Piszcz)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:35:37 -0400
The problem with that is two-fold:

1. We backup multiple copies of the data, therefore, the archive
option will not work.
2. What if a tape has an I/O error half way through the archive process? Yikes.

Justin.

On 3/26/07, Bobby Williams <bobbyrjw at comcast.net> wrote:
> Why not set up an archive schedule?  That way, the files can be archived and
> NetBackup will ensure that they are on tape before removing.
>
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> Bobby Williams
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> Piszcz
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Checking to see if millions of files are backed up?
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> If one is to create a script to ensure that the files on the filesystem are
> backed upon before removing them, what is the best data-store model for
> doing so?
>
> Obviously, if you have > 1,000,000 files in the catalog and you need to
> check each of those, you do not want to bplist -B -C -R 999999
> /path/to/file/1.txt for each file.  However, you do not want to grep "1"
> one_gigabyte_catalog.txt either as there is really too much overhead in
> either case.
>
> I have a few ideas that involves neither of these, but I was wondering if
> anyone out there had already done something similar to this that was high
> performance?
>
> Justin.
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