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TyBreaker

2004-02-27, 3:34 pm

I have a collection over around 3 million files occupying some 70GB,
does anyone have experience with running vdump/vrestore across file sets
of this size? I guess I want to know if it will cope at all and if so,
what sort of performance can I expect?
Mike Dorn

2004-02-27, 5:34 pm

TyBreaker wrote:
> I have a collection over around 3 million files occupying some 70GB,
> does anyone have experience with running vdump/vrestore across file sets
> of this size? I guess I want to know if it will cope at all and if so,
> what sort of performance can I expect?


I used to run a system that had about half a milion files in 18gb, and
vdump did just fine. Since you're only about 6x that, I'd guess you'll
be ok. This was on a little Alpha 1200 running 4.0d. Mylex raid
controller for disk, advfs, dumping to DLT 70gb tape drive. I had a
bunch of web-based security cameras constantly sending jpg snapshots via
ftp. The box filed them into a day/hour/ID+time directory structure,
which got backed up nightly.

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