I would like to know how other users are backing up roaming profiles and what their policy is. We currently have 4000+ users whose profiles (WinXP) are stored on a NAS box. Now everyone knows that user profiles are a large number of small files (1000+ and average of 16 bytes). I have excluded the Cookies and Temporary Internet File direcotries. Still this gives us around 2M+ files and over 108 GB. (This also includes My Documents).
The problem is the amount of time to backup this many files is around 50 hours. A differential is in excess of 12 hours.
My Master is a Solaris e450 that has more than adequate capacity (using sarcheck on an hourly basis, and have a gigabit connection...backup over 200+ servers on master and 2 medias...all Solaris).
The NAS box is running a scaled down version of Windows and is using 4 Xeon P III processors at 900 mhz and 4 GB of memory. I can see that this server does not scale well across it's processors. I looked at some reports that said in the last hour utilization was P1 61% P2 11% P3 17% & P4 12% ....
Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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The problem is the amount of time to backup this many files is around 50 hours. A differential is in excess of 12 hours.
My Master is a Solaris e450 that has more than adequate capacity (using sarcheck on an hourly basis, and have a gigabit connection...backup over 200+ servers on master and 2 medias...all Solaris).
The NAS box is running a scaled down version of Windows and is using 4 Xeon P III processors at 900 mhz and 4 GB of memory. I can see that this server does not scale well across it's processors. I looked at some reports that said in the last hour utilization was P1 61% P2 11% P3 17% & P4 12% ....
Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.