Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-07 Thread Connor, Jeffrey P.
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Sharpe Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files The pool in question here is not collocated, so I expected to have lots of tape mounts but the long period of inactivity

Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-07 Thread Robin Sharpe
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Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-07 Thread Connor, Jeffrey P.
Robin, I hope the LTO firmware resolves your problem. However, I have seen a similar situation for Windows clients in our shop and it was not a tape drive issue. The situation here was that we had a tape stgpool, 3590Ks /3590E1A drives, collocated by node, that reached its maxscratch value. This

Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-07 Thread Robin Sharpe
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Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-07 Thread William Boyer
very much for the information! -Robin Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc: Manager" Subject: <[E

Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-07 Thread Rejean Larivee
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Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-06 Thread Robin Sharpe
s very much for the information! -Robin Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Storcc: Manager" Subject: <[EMAIL

Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
You should investigate the latest LTO2 firmware, 53Y2L2F.ro Our drives were all at 4772 and we were having a variety of problems (much better than 38D0). Since I upgraded to 53Y2, things have calmed down quite a bit. Matthias Feyerabend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-06 Thread Matthias Feyerabend
You are at which firmware on IBM LTO2 FC ? We had last year big problems with firmware 38D0 , until we switched to 4770. You can see that problem if you use tapeutil and skip to EOD and see how long it takes. Should be some minutes, was with our firmware one hour and more. Just a guess. Regards M

Re: Very slow restores (days), hours to locate files

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Sims
Please, everyone, when posting questions about restorals, give details about the manner in which the restoral was invoked so that we can get a sense of what kind is involved (NQR, Classic) and what is involved. Now... Robin, have a look at IBM Technote 1209563, which I ran across in doing resear