Two things have helped in our configuration:
1) Setting volume to Auto recycle mode - this helped clean-up older
savesets, reducing files+dirs count
2) Removal of older but empty directories on this NAS Share (networker
AFTD volume) -- is this OK to do ?
3) Removal of VSS subsets (save operations configuring VSS to off) for non-
critical servers. This saves 4-5 savesets/server per day;
Thanks
Sri
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:24:40 -0400, Sree wrote:
Folks:
Running Networker 7.6 on Windows Server 2003;
We have a NAS/Share from HP D2D 2504i - which apparently has a limitation
of maximum of 25000 Files+Directories count (on a single share):
"The HP D2D Backup System imposes a limit on the number of files that can
be stored on each NAS share. The limit is 25000 files, which provides the
ability to protect a large amount of data using a backup application. The
limit is imposed in order to allow efficient use of data replication.”
We've looked at the share, it had just exceeded 25000 files:
Total Files : 10640
Total Dirs : 14361
Now, no new Writes are being permitted by D2D to that share. (Ofcourse, we
could create a new backup-share on D2D (consider it as a new root dir),
and D2D allows full access to this newly created share.
How can we possibly clean-up our original adv_file share via Networker, to
go below the 25000 files+dirs D2D-device limit ?
We have saved a total of 5317 savesets over the last 9 weeks of Networker
backups("retention").
Also noticed that Netwroker's directory structure is:
Main-level Dirs: 00,01 .. thru .. 98,99 (100 dirs).
Under each of these 00, 01 etc dirs, there are subdir-tree from 00-thru-
99.
Some of those leaf dirs have "notes" directory" 00->00->notes, and/or a
long file: "31ffccc9-00000006-3f3b6aec-4e3b6aec-03c2c11c-c8d026de"
So, I can count 100 * 100 ~ approximately: 10000 dirs PLUS this "notes"
sub-dirs, and/or some of those long-named files.
We sure are bumping into 25000 imposed limit. How we can address this
problem? Great ideas Welcome !
Thanks
Sree
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