Mark, have you unchecked "Cross Mount Points"
I went through a similar situation with one of our Solaris servers.  After 
unchecking that box, my backup times reduced by atleast 50%.



mark wragge wrote:
> what is the best way to backup a solaris server copntaining millions of small 
> files. is flashbackup the quickest way?
> 
> the backup is currently taking over one day for 250gb and we suspect that it 
> is the large number of files.
> 
> thanks
> 
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