Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

2017-01-26 Thread Bo Nielsen
Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: 20. januar 2017 15:43 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files. Do you need to recover files individually? If so, then image backup (at least on its own) won&#

Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

2017-01-20 Thread Rick Adamson
Bo, What is the total space occupied by this data? -Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bo Nielsen Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 9:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Advice for archiving 80 billion of small

Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

2017-01-20 Thread Graham Stewart
Whenever we have a situation like this we always tar.gz into one file first, before archiving to TSM .. either the top level directory or multiple lower level directories, if it makes sense to do so, based on what the retrieval expectations might be. Also very useful is to tar.gz verbosely, wri

Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

2017-01-20 Thread Skylar Thompson
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 ball

Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

2017-01-20 Thread Sasa Drnjevic
On 20.1.2017. 15:31, Zoltan Forray wrote: > TAR and/or GZip? We do it here that way. Regards, -- Sasa Drnjevic www.srce.unizg.hr > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Anderson Douglas > wrote: > >> Try image backup >> >> Em 20/01/2017 12:23, "Bo Nielsen" escreveu: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I ne

Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

2017-01-20 Thread Yi, Ung
Good one. :-) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Anderson Douglas Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 9:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files. Try image backup Em 20/01/2017 12:23

Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

2017-01-20 Thread Zoltan Forray
TAR and/or GZip? On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Anderson Douglas wrote: > Try image backup > > Em 20/01/2017 12:23, "Bo Nielsen" escreveu: > > > 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 T

Re: Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

2017-01-20 Thread Anderson Douglas
Try image backup Em 20/01/2017 12:23, "Bo Nielsen" escreveu: > 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 pa

Advice for archiving 80 billion of small files.

2017-01-20 Thread Bo Nielsen
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