Boring I know, but I'd be interested to learn what kind of backup performance people
are getting for Windows/CIFS shares. I'm particularly thinking of home and shared
directories with millions of small files - the usual junk that accumulates on these
types of shares with hundreds of users.
 
I've seen amazing performance from dumps of Oracle datafiles, in the order of
90MB/s to three fibre-attached LTO-1s from an F840, but I know many small files
will reduce thruput significantly. The question is how much and what would
you do differently ?
 
I'd be grateful for any numbers people could share. We'll probably use NDMP but
I guess simple dumps would give a similar performance.
 
Thks in advance.
 
D
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