Hi Curtis,

>> 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?

It wouldn't be the first time to have poorly written documentation :-)

I believe that what this may be referring to is the capability of allowing
clients to do restores without being storage nodes if the AFTDs are mounted
in exactly the same path.

That is, server has AFTD mounted at /d/01/nsr. Client also has it mounted at
/d/01/nsr. 

In this new supported system, the client can, after quickly checking status
with the owner of the AFTD, proceed with recovering the data without it
going via the AFTD --- this does allow a large number of simultaneous
restores indeed. The advantage of this mode is that if you're in an
environment which requires a large number of restores it does reduce the
load on the nsrmmd's.

However, it is my understanding that multiple concurrent restores are
supported without this mode ... and just testing on 2 different clients
under 7.3.2 showed this to be correct.

Cheers,

Preston.

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