Yes, flashbackup is the quickest way. We have several servers with millions of 
files and I've done a large amount of testing with this. To give you a scenario 
of real world example we have a server with ~20 million files (2.5TB total) 
that are all JPG images. Executing a normal backup this server ran for 105 
hours and was still only about half way complete. We enabled FlashBackup and 
ran it, the backup took 30 hours to complete.

30 hours is still not great, but it allows us to do monthly Fulls.

The only problem with FlashBackup is you cannot multistream from a single 
volume.


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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