Been there - done that - went through a complete restore that took days (could not do NQR for some of it).
Why is journaling "not feasible"? I have a Windows box with 97M total files (including offsite copy) that uses journaling and backs up every day. Granted, it takes 7-hours and uses the minimum memory model (the box is still 2K3 32-bot with 4GB RAM) From: Mehdi Salehi <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 06/24/2010 09:05 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] incremental backup of many millions of very small files Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> Hi, Can TSM Fastback be a good solution to backup an NTFS filesystem (about 500GB) with tens of millions of files? The daily increment of this filesystem is about 10-15 GB. Currently we use full daily image backups with b/a client. Because incremental (even journaling) is not feasible and furthermore restore would take even days, I wonder whether the block-level incremental of FastBack can help in this way? Thanks so much
