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H_Sharma
Level 6
10 years ago

Multiple Small Files

Hello Experts,

We have one solaris 11 servers. It has many small files it has taken more than 12 hours to take the backup on tape and still running. Drives are free and no issue with the drives. Speed we could see on the policy it shows1 mbps that is rather slow.

These server has many small log files i believe thats why its taking time. So somebody has suggessted to TAR these all files and then this would become one file and backup would be fast.So pls let me know to troubleshoot this slow client issue and can we consider this tar option as solution.

 

Thanks,

  • Flash-backup or accelerator is usually the answer to backup of many small files

    Fragmentation causes slower backups, so defragmentation can help with the speed

    suggest you do a bpbkar -nocont to measure how fast you can read the file system