have you tried Journal Based Backup? it looks as if you can still take advantage from this feature, since you need to backup ca. 5% of your files.
Cordiali saluti Gianluca Mariani Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma Via Sciangai 53, Roma phones : +39(0)659664598 +393351270554 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The people of Krikkit,are, well, you know, they're just a bunch of real sweet guys, you know, who just happen to want to kill everybody. Hell, I feel the same way some mornings..." Brenda Collins <brenda.collins @US.ING.COM> To Sent by: "ADSM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dist Stor cc Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] bcc ST.EDU> Subject Tuning to backup Millions of files 07/11/2002 15.44 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hi! I have an NT server that has an Optika application (Imaging) running on it. It has to search 2 million+ files nightly and ends up backing up about 100,000+ each night. The problem is that it takes about 8 hrs. to do this backup which is not acceptable. Does anyone have any tuning parameters that may help this issue? The files can not be split up among directories anymore than they are. They want their cache files backed up so they copy them over to another directory and we back them up from there. We are upgrading their hardware to see if that helps but if there is any tuning I can do on the TSM side, that would help also. Thanks, Brenda Collins, Sr. Storage Administrator ING 612-342-3839