Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Restore priority

2001-10-11 09:40:11
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore priority
From: AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca (Jason Ahrens)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:40:11 -0400
Yesterday night, we had a system go down. The system was rebuilt and a
restore was started to bring back the data.

The restore was started just minutes after the backup window opened. This
means taht the queue was full of backup jobs. It also appeared that the
restore did not take priority over the backups, and it would have taken
hours to wait for the queue to clear. This was not acceptable and we ended
up killing all the backup jobs so the restore could happen, and requeued all
the backups.

I'm thinking there has to be a better way.

How can I instruct NetBackup to consider restores at a higher priority than
backups, so that when the first free drive and required tape becomes free,
the restore will occur. I would't ask that backups in progress are
halted/suspended for the restore, just that the restore go to the top of the
queue.

Thanks

Jason

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Jason Ahrens
Systems Administrator/Backup Specialist
PSINet Limited
http://www.psi.ca
The Internet SuperCarrier


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