2.3 TB NTFS w/1250 folders @ root level

[collective7]

How would you handle a 2TB windows client with over 1200 folders at the root level if you wanted to use 5 drives to back it up symultaneously?

 

[605]

Just define 5 different NetWorker clients for this physical machines. For each of them, specify different save sets like:

A*.*
B*.*
etc.

This at least works with NW 7.2.

 

[605]

Sorry - of course it shoud read:

d:\A*.*
d:\B*.*
etc.

 

[TDun]

Lets say that your drives work most efficiently with 4 streams gonig at a time, why not set client parallelism to 20 for this client, set Target Sessions to 1 for each drive. This should send 4 sessions to each of the 5 drives.

 

[bse1969]

I think he has one drive that is 2TB so it would only be able to send the one session for that one drive. I think the multiple instances of the client with different save sets is the way to go as 605 recommended.

 

[collective7]

Thanks all. We went with multiple dir. entries in the same client resource and tweaked the parallelism/target sessions until best performance was reached.

It works.

Thanks again.-