Dave,

You could try using WinZip, WinRar, 7zip, or even NTBackup to create a 
flat file of all of these files for you. At a previous job we had a 
similarly designed application that created tons of directories for each 
client entry. Of course this was pretty static data, but it took a few 
hours just for NBU to traverse the directory structure in that area of the 
filesystem alone. Try that and see if it works any better for you.

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Not as yet. something i'll look at also.

I have spoke to the App guy and it makes sense the drive can't be locked 
to do a raw backup as it will be constantly in use by the application.

I'm a but stuck as to how to back this thing up now.

cheers

Donaldson, Mark wrote:
> Have you increased your timers yet?  Client_read_timeout springs to
> mind...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave
> Markham
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:11 AM
> To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Million file backup issue
>
> Running Netbackup 5.0Mp7 on Solaris 9 Master server.
>
> 10 odd network based clients some windows2000, 2003 and Solaris 8,9
>
> We are having trouble with one Windows 2000 server running Envision IDS 
> software which creates millions of files under a directory. 
> f:\nic\lsnode has 87gb data with 1.4million files. Luckily the directory
>
> is on a separate drive than the OS so there are options (hopefully).
>
> We currently can't get a backup as it fails with Status 14 or other
> issues.
>
> I'm asking for advise from windows side as i'm a Unix/Solaris engineer.
>
> I'm guessing i need to do some image type backup with flash or snap but 
> i dont have the advanced client license and as i'm on v5 i dont see how 
> i can get one.
>
> I've currently tried following this :- 
> http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/275912.htm
> and putting /\\.\F: in the file list for a new policy with the problem 
> client to do raw backup.
>
> However i get a Status1 and get the following error :-
>
> WRN - can't lock raw device for read: \\.\F: (F:) (Win32 5: Access is 
> denied. )
>
> I'm not sure why that is.
>
> Also i have not got any settings on the Client properties under VSP. I 
> dont have a cache file volume list or Cache File Size parameters other 
> than default. Should i be changing anything here?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Cheers
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