I am restoring 2-drives (F: and G:) with 27M and 22M objects and 900G and 700G, respectively. Since the F: was going to be so problematic, I decided to start the G: last night at 11:30pm since I can run NQR/unattended. So far as of this writing, it has restored 15M/250GB.
Not sure if the PIT will be much good for the F: drive since it will have to select EVERYTHING for the restore no matter what PIT I go to (which looks to be at least 15-days ago since that is when the F: backups started registering "unreadable/corrupt" files. I will try PIT once I finish the G: volume. OS is W2K3SP2 Enterprise Edition. From: "Ochs, Duane" <duane.o...@qg.com> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 12/09/2009 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restoring LARGE server Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Zoltan, Have you attempted a Point in Time restore from command line? That might help with the number of inactive files you are experiencing. If that is not an option, you may have to go a couple directories at a time. I have only had experience restoring up to 9M files and the one time I did it used PIT and worked fine, turned maxmp up to 4. It certainly took a while. But it did complete. What OS are you using on the client ? Duane -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 7:51 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Restoring LARGE server Trying to restore a LARGE Windows server. Over 40M objects. Client is 6.1 As you can imagine, we have had to use the journal as well as MEMORYEFFICIENT to perform backups. If I read correctly, MEMORYEFFICIENT is ONLY for backups. Obviously the journal is of no value since the restore is to a new machine/location. The other issue gumming up the works is that the backups have been failing (drive array problems/corruption) and thus TSM has marked almost everything as "inactive". A first, NQR restore (just selected the drive) attempt only restored 90GB (of 600G+) before "finishing successfully". But when I choose to pick inactive as well as active, the NQR is disabled. The server transfers down 1GB of metadata before the client chokes on "insufficient memory". So, how am I supposed to restore this many objects, besides picking one directory at a time, which is not to say that some directories are large enough to also cause a "not enough memory" situation? Suggestions on how to handle this?
