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Michael_G_Ander's avatar
9 years ago

Restore of many small files on ntfs, improve speed ?

Is restoring some file servers with a fair amount of files, and is getting a poor performance 30-60 MB/sec compared to the hardware and tests 200-330 MB/sec. Have tried to play around with the buf...
  • Michael_G_Ander's avatar
    9 years ago

    Have talked with one of our windows guys, it seems that is a limitation of the way ntfs works when writing files so there is nothing do.

    Untill either Microsoft rewrites the code or Veritas comes up with an accelerator for restore.(Hint, Hint Veritas)