When a restartable restore is currently running, it displays the session number "-1"... only possible when NQR is invoked.
Once that number becomes positive (you have stopped the active restore), then you can (from dsmc on the client) run "restart restore" (see the using clients book). If you continue to restart from the beginning, you will incur the total restore time all over again -- and, with NQR, you can even see the data coming down from the server (by watching the network activity). OTOH, I indicated (in a previous post) how you could trigger classic restore (rather than NQR), which would still incur think-time, but the server would do the "thinking" as it determines the list of files eligible to send, then sorts the tape mounts, and starts sending the data... my experience in restoring 20 GB filesystem, depends on # of dir-objects, should complete in less than 4 hours -- although that could be more (ROT is between 2 and 7 GB per hour for extremely large number of files). Regards, Don Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:don_france@;att.net Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: continue a restartable session we've got ADSM 3.1 on an AIX 4.3.3 machine, with a 3575 tape library. we had a major hardware failure, and i'm restoring the last filesystem right now. i'm trying to retore a filesystem on an aix system, let's say its called /home/dude. its a 20GB filesystem. 7GB has already been restored a few days ago, but the session died because of a missing tape which we do not have anymore (data not available to server) (don't ask why we dont have the tape anymore). but now i must restore the rest of that filesystem. there was a restartable session for this restore, which i canceled yesterday. since the restartable seesion is canceled. im just trying to restart a brand new restore for that filesystem. i go to the aix client, type dsm, then choose to restore /home/dude, then it starts working, and at some point it asks me if i want to overwrite, i say NO, then it hangs. its been sitting there for 90 minutes??!?!?: 1,380 Tcp/Ip RecvW 1.5 H 826.4 K 5.2 K Node AIX HERA.ITG.UIUC.EDU also, when i do a q rest i get this: Sess Restore Elapsed Node Name Filespace Number State Minutes Name ------ ----------- ------- --------------------- ----------- -1 Restartable 88 HERA.ITG.UIUC.EDU /home/mac/dude but the sessions should show up as ACTIVE, not Restartable. so how do i finish restoring this filesystem? i looked in the administrator guide, page 204, and it does NOT say how to start a restartable session. it only says how to cancel it. any ideas? should i just start over? i hate to do that if im just gonna have to wait another 90 minutes for it to start restoring. thanks in advance, alex --- --- Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu --- ---
