Hi,
I am writing to look for some way around this problem. We are using NBU7.5 running between a NetApp filer and a Dell LTO library. It is networked using fiber between the elements. We use NDMP as the backup protocol. NBU is running on a Windows 2008 server and is a single master and media server.
The volumes I need to back up are CIFS shares. They serve our customer community. We have thousands of customers creating many typically small files. Right now the volume is 1.35 TB with > 7 Million files. I am running a full backup right now. It has been running for 11 hours and I have backed up 6 GB of data. Needless to say, this is not going to work.
Is there anything I can do to improve the backup speed of this volume? My understanding is that this is slow because the backup must record metadata on every file. Is there any way to minimize or change that behavior (I am sure the answer is no, but I am asking anyway...). We are trying to archive this data to be sure we have it before deleting a large portion of it. THat will obvioulsy improve speed, but I must get through this one backup. Any help would be most appreciated.
Joe