Jorge, On Unix systems: I've done it in two steps. Create a tar file of the file system and zip it. Create a second file listing all the files in the tarred directory. The tar extract command allows single files to be recalled if the absolute path name is available.
I've used this to backup a Sterling Commerce flat file database with multiple subdirectories holding more than 1.5 million files. The tar/gzip command took 5 or 6 hours for a 500 GB file system. I have not tried to do this on a Windows system. Jim Schneider -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jorge Amil Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] million files backup Hi everybody, Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than contains million files? Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS filesystem and is not supported. Thanks in advance Jorge
