Networker

Re: [Networker] How NW cloning & multiplexing REALLY works

2007-01-24 02:42:13
Subject: Re: [Networker] How NW cloning & multiplexing REALLY works
From: Dag Nygren <dag AT NEWTECH DOT FI>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:24:30 +0200
> >I was just objecting to the fact that Davina said that Networker
> >by design cannot do concurrent reads from disk as this limitation
> >was removed in 7.3 up. Try to recover two or more savesets from
> >the same AFTD and you will see them both happening at the
> >same time.
> >I did not claim that NW would do the cloning in parallell.
> 
> Oh, so you're saying that NW can RECOVER two things at the same time.
> That's cool.  It appears from the release notes that this only applies
> to command line recoveries:
> 
> "AFTD function now supports all concurrent recoveries by command line
> clients. All save sets are recovered concurrently from AFTD by means of
> a
> command line operation."
> 
> Am I interpreting that correctly?  In other words, if I did multiple GUI
> restores, it wouldn't do the restores simultaneously?

Yep, it seems so. In my test I only tested two GUI recovers from the same 
client
but that didn't work. One GUI and one CLI did work though.

Best
Dag

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