Does he have the money to do it to disk; perhaps a small NAS? Our EMR server has over 6.5 million, tiny files (a file is generated for each patient visit). We're using Sym BE v11 and backing up to a CX500 SAN. That takes about 12 hours. Which reminds me of the time when our EMR server was using DAS and I had to replace the drives. Didn't have a backup SAN to use so I had to use Legato to backup/restore to/from tape. It took over 48 hours. Yuk.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:36:42 -0400 Subject: Re: Backing up 2 million small files From: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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]> 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™s enough for now. Shook From: Mousehunt [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. WY Search. browse and book your hotels and flights through Yahoo! Travel _________________________________________________________________ Get your vacation photos on your phone! http://windowsliveformobile.com/en-us/photos/default.aspx?&OCID=0809TL-HM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
