[Veritas-bu] Raw volume restore slow?
2002-07-19 16:48:27
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[Veritas-bu] Raw volume restore slow? |
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jonw AT n2h2 DOT com (Jon Walton) |
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Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:48:27 -0700 (PDT) |
Did you type this backwards? I thought that rdsk signified the raw
device.
Regards,
Jon
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Fabbro, Andrew P wrote:
> I found and fixed the problem (raw partition backups were fast but restores
> were very slow). The solution is to backup and restore /dev/vx/rdsk instead
> of /dev/vx/dsk. That makes sense, since rdsk is the block devices. Should
> have been obvious - I am a bonehead.
>
> Though in my defense, I'd observe that Veritas's own manuals say "try both
> character and block devices and see which works better". You'd think that
> since they wrote the volume manager, the filesystem, AND the backup
> software, they'd be able to provide a *little* more guidance...;)
>
> --
> Drew Fabbro
> fabbro.andrew AT cnf DOT com
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> -- chess grandmaster Aaron Nimzovich
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