David, Great catch on the 100Mbit card auto negotiate thing. Whew. Forget that and you miss breakfast the next morning too.
Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing & CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Longo Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Insight into improving restores needed I will just add 2 quick things to check. 1. You say TSM server is GB, probably all the clients are not though. For the ones that are 100MB Nic's - DOUBLE CHECK before starting restore at DR site that they and the Ethernet Switch ports they connect to are set to 100MB Full Duplex - not auto negotiate. Many people have lost hours of time, trying a restore with auto set. 2. In your test restores, you will probably find cases where there is a folder/directory or more on a server that has jillions of files. Hint is, if you just sit and watch the files scroll by in a text window, it will be obvious when you hit this. One example is Oracle log and or cache files. Probably DBA or responsible party has not been cleaning up! (Some directories can get many similar named files per day, after a year you have 365 spots on tapes to restore. And that may be the only thing left there after a few months.) You just have to watch restore occasionally to see this. On some systems, eliminating these files can cut restore time in half on next restore test. Personal experience here! David Longo >>> Nicholas Rodolfich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/5/2007 4:05 PM >>> Hello All, Thanks for your help! I work at a medical institution and there is a big push to get our DR procedures in order. We will be using a Sungard facility for our DR activities and we will have to restore 4-6 AIX servers (2 HA clusters 1 DB with 1Tb and one apps on another cluster) and 20-25 Wintel platforms with various applications, DBs, Novell, etc. We have a 3584 Library with 16 drives (8 LOT1 and 8 LTO2) and a 55A with 4CPUs and 12Gb RAM. Gb NICs and will have like equipment at the DR facility. Some tests have revieled an extended time to restore due to many volumes being loaded to perform a restore. I am looking for some empirical strategies, white papers, advice, etc. to help me improve this situation without loads of money of course! I am not ruling out any method including backup sets, archive schedules, collocation, etc.. I can't seem to find what I need from IBM websites regarding the gotcha's. I need the "fastest way" shy of a $10M hot site strategy so I am going to the mountain! I appreciate you help!! Nicholas IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation. ##################################### This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. #####################################
