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[Veritas-bu] Raw volume restore slow?

2002-07-19 16:48:27
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Raw volume restore slow?
From: jonw AT n2h2 DOT com (Jon Walton)
Date: 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...;)
> 
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