Here's the situation.... at work, I have a few servers that house very important files. Each server has hundreds of thousands of directories and millions of small ~15KB - 250KB files. A few thousand files get added or changed daily. I need to do a daily backup to tape. The way I was handling this was using Symantec Continuous protection server and keeping a copy of these files on my backup server. Then going from that server to tape. Straight backup from those servers to tape is MUCH too slow...even over gigabit and fast hard drives it takes close to two days!
Here's the problem. Continuous protection server, although very nice in the feature department, is a flaming pile of garbage for this huge file set. It bogs down, has memory leaks, and in my opinion just wasn't designed for this large of a file set. As such, I'm searching for an alternative solution. All boxes are Win2003.
My lead contender is using DeltaCopy (rSync wrapper for windows) to keep the files synced. I can use This Method to take a shadow copy of the files and sync to that...that way if any files are open they'll still get sync'd. What do you guys think of this?
A few other contenders would be Microsoft's SyncToy (which I have found to be pretty robust), robocopy (which I haven't used much but hear good things about, and one of many 'sync' software from 3rd party vendors.
Any words of advice or recommendations to help me through this?
Thanks.
Here's the problem. Continuous protection server, although very nice in the feature department, is a flaming pile of garbage for this huge file set. It bogs down, has memory leaks, and in my opinion just wasn't designed for this large of a file set. As such, I'm searching for an alternative solution. All boxes are Win2003.
My lead contender is using DeltaCopy (rSync wrapper for windows) to keep the files synced. I can use This Method to take a shadow copy of the files and sync to that...that way if any files are open they'll still get sync'd. What do you guys think of this?
A few other contenders would be Microsoft's SyncToy (which I have found to be pretty robust), robocopy (which I haven't used much but hear good things about, and one of many 'sync' software from 3rd party vendors.
Any words of advice or recommendations to help me through this?
Thanks.