On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:02:00 -0400, Craig Baxter <baxter9 AT LLNL DOT GOV> 
wrote:

>Dell Win2K file server (2 600Mhz processors, 1.5GB memory) with Networker
>6.1.  We had a RAID5 set blow away two drives.  We repaired the RAID and
>then proceeded to attempt to recover 133,000 files on 200GB worth of data.
>After marking the entire drive for recovery, the index scan alone has taken
>3 hours.
>
>Is this normal to take this long?
>

See also "LGTpa31689: Performance during Browse phase of recover is
extremely slow." at ftp://ftp.legato.com/pub/NetWorker/Updates/Windows/.
I understood this was fixed at 6.1.1, but still find customers complaining
about length of time to mark.  Seems like new CFI db is not as responsive
as pre-6.x.
If you can, Saveset Restore is faster.

Carl Farnsworth
DigiDyne Inc.

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