On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Steve Barber wrote: > I've seen some interesting comments in this thread so far, but none > seem to discuss our concerns: We have a fairly large installation, > and due to the file-per-message nature this makes for millions of > small files which can wreak havoc on a backup system. We're using > VXFS on Solaris, but are using a homegrown hodgepodge of stuff > to get reasonable backup performance, and our trust in this solution > is not terribly high. I'm curious how others have addressed the > situation? We have not even attempted to set TSM or any other > commercial backup software loose on the mail server yet because of the > incredible index requirements.
We're using vxfs on solaris, taking a snapshot of the applicable filesystem, backing up the filesystem, aned then deleting the snapshot. This leads to perfect consistancy, though it does require the creation of a snapshot on a live system. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
