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[Networker] How to clone as fast as possible?

2010-07-01 04:37:47
Subject: [Networker] How to clone as fast as possible?
From: Manel Rodero <manel AT FIB.UPC DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:34:05 +0200
Hello,

I have a full backup of 2357GB that spans over 15 SDLT320 tapes as you can see in the following output:

mminfo -r volume,savesets,written -q "!incomplete,savetime>=7/13/2009,savetime<=7/15/2009"

 volume           #ss written
HIS101             71 163 GB
HIS102              5 7806 MB
HIS103             38 165 GB
HIS104             32 160 GB
HIS106              6 130 GB
HIS112              1  54 GB
HIS113             52 194 GB
HIS114             43 221 GB
HIS115              9 169 GB
HIS125             64 159 GB
HIS126             76 178 GB
HIS127             51 160 GB
HIS128             53 235 GB
HIS129             33 175 GB
HIS130             69 187 GB

I want to clone it to disk but I need to do it in three passes (because I only have 1TB disk available). So I've used 'mminfo' for getting the savesets and I've ordered them by media:

mminfo -r ssid -q "!incomplete,savetime>=7/13/2009,savetime<=7/15/2009" -om

4099623839
4133178271
4116401055
4082846624
[...]
3176916744
3160140266
3143403038
3126626360

There are 564 unique savesets (i.e. the savesets that spans over more than one tape appear only 1 time in the list) so I've decided to split this list in 3 parts (ss1.txt, ss2.txt and ss3.txt) and execute a:

nsrclone -S -f ss1.txt

but it's SLOOOW (6 hours and it haven't finished yet). For example, this firs clone of ss1.txt savesets uses HIS126, HIS125, HIS130 and HIS101 tapes

So, what's the fastest method to clone these savesets? (I've supposed it could be something that makes the tape read as linear as possible).

Thank you very much.

--

       Manel Rodero Blánquez
o o o  IT Systems Manager
o o o  Laboratori de Càlcul
o o o  Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona
U P C  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech

       E-mail : manel AT fib.upc DOT edu
       Tel.   : +34 93 401 0847
       Web    : http://www.fib.upc.edu/

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