Hello All,
I am not shure, but what I observed is that when you format the DB volumes on
UNIX, this takes some time while the actual formatting is being done. On a
Windows system, though, DB formats occur instantly, regardless of the size of
the files. The actual formatting of the DB volumes on a Windows system seems to
occur during the log mount phase.
Using a small Windows system I formatted a 50GB database and a 100MB log
(just to bring the server up) in 5 seconds! The log mount, however, lasted for
about 90 minutes.
Regards,
Paul Gondim van Dongen
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br
+55 81 3225-0353
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De: Remco Post [mailto:r.post AT SARA DOT NL]
Enviada em: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:19 AM
Para: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Assunto: Re: Database and log format question.
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:52:58 +0200
Daniel Sparrman <Daniel.Sparrman AT EXIST DOT SE> wrote:
> Hi
>
> My guess is that it's commiting log information. During DB restore,
> the restore is sequential. However, when commiting the log
> information, it is commiting the log on a per transaction basis. If
> you're logs where highly used during your last db backup, this could
> explain why it's taking so long for the TSM server to mount the log.
>
> Remember, that during inital startup after a db restore, the TSM
> server will do a recovery log roll-back, and commit all transactions
> within the TSM log.
>
Ok, now, Windows is different of course, but I just did about the same thing to
an AIX server, TSM 5.2.1.2 on AIX 5.2 in 64 bit mode.
Logformatting took us about 5 minutes for a 13GB log, the db volumes were not
formatted.
Restoring my 27 000 000 pages of database took about 2:30 hours, up and running
in 3. Now, I do have about the fastest disks money can buy for my TSM server
(15k RPM, 2 GB/s FC-AL), so you might expect a bit less performance on your
windows system, but still, things should be about comparable.
Log mounting of a freshly formatted log should take about 0 seconds.
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> ok the server specs are a quad 1.4ghz pentium 4, 4gb memory running
> win2k advanced server. What I did was erase the old log and database
> volumes, then do a dsmserv -k
> format with the log and database volume specs.
> It created the volumes and formatted the recovery log volumes rather
> quickly.
> After it format's the recovery log volumes it does a recovery log
> volume mount.
> This is what is taking so long.
> I've been monitoring the IO and it seems to be doing something to the
> database disk, perhaps formatting the database volumes too? I don't
> know. I've done this before but never with a database this large.
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> Thanks,
> Mark
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> From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:justin.bleistein AT SUNGARD DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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> 3 hours? Wow!. What's are the hardware specs of your tsm server? What
> else is going on, on that system (topas, if AIX, or top)? I would
> probably consider running either a database audit or re-org, then try
> mounting it again. thanks!
>
> On more thing, are you starting the server up again in the
> foreground
> or background?. If your initially trying to start it up in
> the background, kill it and start it up in the foreground first then
> let it
> do all of it's redo log record and undo passes, as well as log mount.
> Then once it's up, and you get a tsm server prompt. Then halt the
> server and restart it in the background for production operation
> at that point. Just another thought.
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> --Justin Richard Bleistein
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> Yesterday morning I had an incident and lost one of the drives I had
> about half my database volumes defined on. I'm in the process of
> reformatting the log and database volumes so I can do
> a database restore.
> The database is 100gb and my log size is 13gb.
> It's been mounting the log volumes for over 3 hours now.
> Does anyone have any experience with a database this large in as far
> as approximately how long it will take to format and mount the
> database/log volumes?
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> Thanks in advance,
> Mark Remeta
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