On Thursday 07 December 2006 19:53, Dearman, Richard wrote:
> One of oour main windows 2003 server crahsed today and the san disk it
> turs out is corrupted and we need to restore 2TB of user files to a new
> server.
>
> The users cannot login to their workstations because this server is used
> in our login process and each user maps a home directory to a share on
> that server when they login.  I am in the process of creating a backupset
> so the restore can go quickly but our management needs the users to at
> least be able to login even if there data is not restored yet.
Creating a backset will take more time then just doing the restore.  If you
want to speed up the restore, you can move the data of that node to a disk
based storage pool or just to 1 tape with the move nodedata command.


Stef