Do you need to recover files individually? If so, then image backup (at least on its own) won't be a good option. One thing you could do is tar up chunks (maybe a million files) and archive/backup those chunks. Keep a catalog (hopefully a database with indexes) of which files are in which tar balls, and then when you go to restore you only have to recover 1/80000 of your data to get one file.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:18:04PM +0000, Bo Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > I need advice. > I must archive 80 billion small files, but that is not possible, as I see it. > since it will fill in the TSM's Database about 73 Tb. > The filespace is mounted on a Linux server. > Is there a way to pack/zip the files, so it's a smaller number of files. > anybody who has tried this ?? > > Regards, > > Bo Nielsen > > > IT Service > > > > Technical University of Denmark > > IT Service > > Frederiksborgvej 399 > > Building 109 > > DK - 4000 Roskilde > > Denmark > > Mobil +45 2337 0271 > > boa...@dtu.dk<mailto:boa...@dtu.dk> -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
