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.

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