I don't' think it's the number of files you are trying to restore, it's the number of files the request has to sort through in the TSM DB for that client.
Wanda -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:26 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: NQR hanging on AIX system Thank you for this helpful feature and information. I will pass it on. However, I do not feel the "large number of files" is the issue since there was only 164K files restored when we did it by hand/non-NQR. TSM_User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 02/07/2006 07:41 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] NQR hanging on AIX system When you do not want to invoke the NQR simply put "testflag disablenqr" in your dsm.opt file. It would be nice if in a future release of the TSM client code this could be a simple check box. Anyway, quite often in the windows world I have to set that when I am trying to restore a single directory on a server that has millions of files. I've been told by IBM that it isn't that it is broke or hung up and if you let it run it will complete. It is just the NQR on a file system with many files will run longer than desired. Thus they published the test flag so that a user can disable NQR when they feel it would help. There is an article on it http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&q1=disabl enqr&uid=swg21083435&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en Also, http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&q1=disabl enqr&uid=swg21142185&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en Kyle Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We just discovered a strange problem/issue that we can only attest to being a client issue, but I haven't been able to find a difinitive problem/fix. Client=V5.1.6.0 on AIX 4.3 (thus I can not upgrade the client but so much, due to OS and patch levels). The server is AIX V5.3.2.2. This AIX system lost a disk. So, we mount another disk and start the No-Query-Restore of this filesystem.......................Client says "waiting for files from server" and then simply sits there doing nothing.. The server side shows minimal activity and that the client session is in a RUN state, but that is it. No files get transfered or restored. We tried this numerous times/ways. I made sure to stop *ALL* actitity on the TSM server. We even bounced the TSM server, since the sessions seem to be hanging (IBM, can we please have a "terminate with extreme prejudice" option, e.g. the FORCE command on z/OS) Then we discovered that selecting *1* file for restore, works. So we tried a pattern that violates the NQR qualification rules(*.txt). That seems to work. So, obviously NQR at this client level (or perhaps client and server level compatibility) seems to be broke ! All references to NRQ issues/fixes I found on the website seem to refer to various crashes, especially when killing the restores from the client side. None refered to the client just going to sleep/spinning its wheels (yes, we tried letting it sit for 30-minutes) Any thoughts/suggestions/hits I missed ? --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.
