SUMMARY: Backing up millions of files

sburch@derwent.co.uk
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:26:00 +0100

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Bit over due this one...my original query :-

I have a requirement to backup a a large amount of smallish files,
approximately 2 million averaging 5K in size (roughly 10GB worth).
I don't want to backup the whole partition using ufsdump and tar takes
too long (about a day) what would be the quickest method of doing
this, I presume some sort of block dump as opposed to file orientated.

A number of people suggested incremental backups and staging area
scenarios what I really wanted was a means of backing the whole lot up
to one tape for simple storage and retrieval. The answer was simple to
use ufsdump on the area in question e.g.

ufsdump 0f /dev/rmt/0 /data/images

Should have tried this but I had always been under the impression
ufsdump worked on partitions as opposed to individual directories.

Many Thanks to all those who replied

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