Many windows 2003 servers now days can scan one to two million files per hour. We don't use journaling until we get over five million files. I've seen the deeper the directory structure the longer it takes to scan Basically if all one million files are at the root of a drive it will scan much faster then if one million files were in hundres of subdirectories.
Shawn Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wanted to start a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of Journal Based Backups for Windows Servers. We currently run TSM 5.3 on an AIX platform and have a subset group who administer the TSM Clients on the windows servers. They have been hesitant to turn Journal Based Backups on because of past issues. >From what I have seen prior to TSM 5.3 there were a number of issues with JBB, however, since 5.3 there have been changes which have fixed prior issues, such as sessions hanging, disconnects etc... I just attended a class for TSM in which the instructor said the only overhead on the client was about 10MB, the size of the file which houses the directory entries. So my question to this list is, those of you who utilize JBB is what have you seen as being an advantages and disadvantages of this feature? I would like to put together a document which I can present to the Windows Administrators to move them towards Journal Based Backups on clients which have more than 400,000 files. Thank you, Shawn Malone __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
