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Quickly restoring 1M+ files from backup

Reddit r/programming·u/axkotti·about 1 month ago
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Back in 2016, we faced a technical challenge implementing a restore for a large number of files (million or more) from a backup. We had to restore them both quickly and durably, meaning the restored files had to survive a power loss.

Neither of the standard approaches worked, so for the solution we had to rely on a couple of undocumented NT internals.

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