Backing up NTFS file system contianing 130 million files

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I'm looking at a solution that will involve a windows 2003 server acting as a file store for an document scanning solution with up to 130 million files in total - approx 400,000 per directory, approx 320 directories totaling about 1.5TB. Would like to know what sort of performance I could expect from our managed backup infrastructure which is NBU V5 LTO2 based. What sort of throughput volumes and size of backup window could I expect.

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NetBackup does not handle situations like this very well unless you purchase the "Advanced Client" option.
Here is a link to a pdf file containing the "data sheet" for Advanced Client:
http://eval.veritas.com/mktginfo/products/Datasheets/Data_Protection/nbu_50_ac_ds.pdf

snippet from above link:
FlashBackup Designed for file systems that contain a large number of small files, the FlashBackup feature combines the performance of raw-partition backups with the ability to restore individual files.

The part you will be interested in is FlashBackup. If you cannot afford this option then you may try the regular raw partition backup available in vanilla NetBackup.


As for the performance/throughput part of your question I suggest reading this FAQ:
http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=3984Message was edited by:
Bob Stump