On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Gardner, Jesse wrote:

> Casey,
>
> I see that symptom when we're doing restores of huge directories, (millions
> of files), or complex file/folder selection amidst huge directories.  Are
> you being patient enough?  Using Win2000, the Backup, Archive, and Restore
> window will hang after you start the restore, and finally say something to
> the effect of "The restore attempt timed out".  It really is still working.
> You can see bpdbm.exe running in Task Manager, chewing up a lot of RAM and
> CPU.  For some of our restores, this can take a half-hour or more, but it
> will eventually go.
>
Jesse,

Thanks for your tip.  Looks like I was just being impatient.  We do have
millions of files.  I just hadn't seen that process go this slow before.

Take care,

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Casey Feskens <cfeskens AT willamette DOT edu>
System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant
Willamette University, Salem, OR
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