Re: [Networker] How to find a piece of a save set that spans?
2010-10-06 22:04:35
George Sinclair wrote:
Werth, Dave wrote:
Yes, I was wondering what the 1000.0 meant as well. Seems like
useless information since it's the same on all of them.
mysterious, certainly.
As far as determining what is spanning volumes below the save set
level, I'm not sure that NetWorker even has that information to give
you. The index probably just stores what save set the file is in but
not what volume. The media DB stores what volume(s) a save set is on
but doesn't break it down to file/directory level. That is just my
guess but it makes sense to me.
It must have it somewhere, or some values that it can use to determine
that, because how can it tell you that a directory that you've selected
to recover will require, say, volumes ABC123 and ABC124, when you select
the 'Show required volumes' under nwrecover or type 'volumes' under the
CLI tool?
It's always been my understanding that the index only gets read during
recover whereas the media database is checked during backups to
determine the date of the last database entry for the save set so it can
then decide what has changed since that date when it does the next
incremental or numeric backup for the save set. Clearly, as you noted,
the media database does not go further in granularity than the save set
name itself, but since the index gets read when doing recover, it must
store that information in the index somewhere or at least some type of
metadata that it can then use to determine which volumes it's on. Also,
how does it know what the next tape is to load when doing a recover that
spans? There's no information on the tape that's going to tell it that
since it couldn't have known in advance when it was writing the EOF mark
on the preceding tape during the backup. It must be in the index.
I'm looking for a way to ferret that out somehow, minimally for a given
directory. Hmm ...
I've looked into this a little further. I first tried the earlier method
that I theorized on using 'nsrinfo' with the '-v' option and adding up
the 'NSR size' values until I got something close to the sumsize
reported from mminfo, and that allowed me to find a directory that
spanned tapes 1 and 2 and also another one that spanned tapes 2 and 3
but not after that. The directory that I thought would force it to use
tapes 3 and 4 instead wants to use tape 4 only. I kept backing it off a
directory, using previous ones listed in the 'nsrinfo' output, but each
time that I thought I had a winner, it kept requesting tape 4. Maybe I
just got lucky on the others.
Next, I looked at the '-V' option for nsrinfo that shows the offset. By
using that value and comparing it with the 'first', 'last' values from
mminfo, I think I might be able to make it work.
So, I want to find a directory that spans tapes 3 and 4 (with 4 being
the last volume):
mminfo -s server -q 'volume=tape3,name=saveset_name -ot -r first,last | tail
nsrinfo -s server -V -t nsavetime client > filename
I then look at all the entries in filename until I find the first one
where the 'off=value' value is as close to the last value reported from
the mminfo output. In my case, any entries that were even close were
all under the same directory. I then ran recover and selected that
directory and sure enough, it shows it being on volumes 3 and 4.
When I go down to the file level, if I pick the file shown in nsrinfo
whose 'off=value' is just after that, it requests volume 4 only. If I
pick the one before that, it requests just volume 3.
I'll have to play around with this a little more, but I'm thinking the
solution involves using the nsrinfo command to report what was actually
backed up, and what the offset value is for each such entry, and then
cross checking this against what mminfo shows for the 'first' and 'last'
values for the save set for the given volume. Or something like that.
Further testing should demonstrate if this logic will work.
*If* it works, I could probably script it all, and have it just spit out
the most likely candidate that spans each set of volumes.
I'm not sure if more than one file in the given save set could span two
tapes, but I'm thinking not. There's going to be one and only one file
in that save set that spans two tapes. Other save sets that were
multiplexed during the backups could also have a save set that spans
those same two tapes, but not more than one. That sound right? Maybe I
have it all wrong?
George
George
Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
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Subject: Re: [Networker] How to find a piece of a save set that spans?
Werth, Dave wrote:
George,
I was playing around a bit with this in the NMC GUI and found if you
go to "Media" and select "Save Sets" you can set a query for the save
sets you are interested in. Then in the "Save Set List" tab it gives
you a list of all of the volumes that save set is on.
For instance a save set from my weekend full backup displays in the
volume name column:
150021(1000.0,h),150022(1000.0,m),150023(1000.0,m),150024(1000.0,t)
That's the sort of information you're looking for, right?
Well, that tells me which volumes the save set is split across and the
size of each such piece (on each volume). That's the same as running
an 'mminfo' command and reporting the various fields, e.g.
sumflags,sumsize,totalsize,volume ...
What I actually need is a way to find a file or directory or something
that's contained within the save set itself but is split across tapes
1 and 2. Clearly, once the first tape (h) is full, it then moves onto
the next tape (m), but what file, from that save set, is actually
split between those two tapes? I'd like to be able to determine that
also for volumes 2 and 3 and 3 and 4. In my case, I don't really need
to go down to the actual file name itself, just the top level parent
directory that's directly beneath the save set.
For example, let's say the save set name is '/export/dir1/data', and
the save set spans four tapes. Let's assume that 'data' contains
hundreds of sub-directories named: 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004 ... Which
one of those directories spans both tapes 1 and 2? Which one spans
both tapes 2 and 3, tapes 3 and 4? That's what I need to find out. In
my case, none of these directories is large enough to span more that
two tapes.
BTW: What does the '1000.0' value refer to? I see that on my end, too.
In fact, it looks to always be that same value. The volume names and
the 'h', 'm' and 't' values make perfect sense and concur with what
'volume,sumflags' shows from 'mminfo', but the '1000.0' has me confused.
George
Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
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Subject: Re: [Networker] How to find a piece of a save set that spans?
Werth, Dave wrote:
Yes, I like slick too but sometimes when it's something you're only
doing once or twice for testing purposes and don't need it on an
ongoing basis then brute force methods are adequate.
I agree, but in this case, there's so many top level directories for
some of these save sets that it could take me an unacceptably long time.
Would the following scenario possibly work???:
Obviously, I can run 'mminfo' and have it tell me the size (sumsize)
of each piece of the save set that's on each volume. Let's say
there's four pieces, and I specify something like 'sumsize(20)' to
have it list it out in actual bytes. So what if I then run 'nsrinfo
-s server -t nsavetime -v client' for the given save set and capture
that to an output file. That will list all the pieces/parts in the
save set, file by file, with the 'NSR size' and 'file size' of each.
Next, I write a script to parse that output file and add up the sizes
until it hits something close to the 'sumsize(20)' for the first
volume. Once it hits that, it then prints out the pathname of that
file. I then manually check to see if that directory spans. If not,
it's probably one of the directories just before or after that? I
could then do this for the second piece and third piece. In this
example, the fourth piece would be the last so that would be moot.
Assuming this harebrained scheme would even work, I'm not sure what
the difference between 'NSR size' and 'file size' is, but 'NSR size'
is always a little bigger. Maybe I would want to use 'NSR size' for
this? Also, is the order that 'nsrinfo' lists everything in the same
as the order that the data was actually backed up? If not, this goofy
method won't work.
Maybe there's a better way (sigh ...).
George
Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
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Subject: Re: [Networker] How to find a piece of a save set that spans?
Werth, Dave wrote:
George,
I don't know about how you can determine ahead of time what
directories will span multiple volumes but you can certainly go
into Recover and select a directory to recover then check the "Show
required volumes" display to see if in fact it does span volumes.
I don't imagine it would take too long to find one that did (but
then what do I know?).
Yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for: a way to determine which
directories did in fact span tapes, NOT which ones will span tapes.
So, this is an "after the fact" question. I can certainly do as you
mentioned but was looking for a slick way to determine this without
trial and error?
Some of the save sets have a small number of top level
sub-directories so it won't take too long to find one that spans,
but most of the save sets have a lot of top level sub-directories,
so that will take much longer. Obviously, at least one of them must
span two tapes.
George
Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
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Subject: [Networker] How to find a piece of a save set that spans?
Hi,
We have 19 save sets that we've just backed up. These have also been
cloned. Each of these save sets is 1+ TB and consist of a number of
smaller sized sub-directories, e.g. 300 KB, 2.4 GB, 19 GB, etc. The
tape
pool is indexed. All of these save sets span multiple tapes (minimally
3-4 tapes) as they were multiplexed together (parallelism=4) during
backup.
I'd like to run a browseable recover test (nwrecover or CLI
recover) on
a couple of random sub-directories from each save set, but I'd like
to also pick a few that span at least two tapes. I don't want to
recover
the whole save set, however, as these are all very large.
Is there a way I can determine which directories span two tapes?
Will I have to just select random directories, using nwrecover or CLI
recover, until I find one that shows two volumes required?
Thanks.
George
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