Direct attached USB should get you about 1GB/sec -> 1.2GB/sec, so around 10 hours is about right.
From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 15 August 2009 12:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backing up 2 million small files I am doing 753 GB to a local USB and it is looking like close to 9 hours or so at the moment. I am not using any Symantec software and it is doing a copy so no compression. Since I am only at about 15% done this may change. Jon On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Andy Shook <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The devil is in the detailsÿÿ¦. 1. Is the file server being backed-up over the internal LAN? a. If so, is it over Gb? b. Separate backup VLAN or backup network? 2. Specs of file server? 3. Ditto for tape drive? 4. Is the 700GB of files on internal server storage, DAS, NAS or SAN? Thatÿÿ(tm)s enough for now. Shook From: Mousehunt [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backing up 2 million small files Hi All, I have a customer who has a file server. The server data is about 700GB but the number of files is 2 million. They are currently using tape to backup and it uses 12 hours for a full backup. The customer wanted to reduce to 8 hours and they are using Veritas NetBackup v6.5. May I know how can we achieve what the customer wants. Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks. W ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
