Input Needed: How to Back Up Big Filesystems?

I’ve just started writing an article for Storage Magazine on the topic of large filesystem backup.  It’s always been difficult to handle really big filesystems – whether they contain lots of little files or a few big ones.  There are parallelism issues, latency, throughput/streaming, etc.

If you have experience with this topic, I’d appreciate a comment or email so I can pick your brain!  Whether you’re a vendor or end user, let me know what you think about this topic – maybe you’ll see your name in lights in the April or May issue of Storage Magazine!