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Re: [Networker] NetWorker 7.6 SP2 restoring while cloning

2011-05-10 10:28:44
Subject: Re: [Networker] NetWorker 7.6 SP2 restoring while cloning
From: Thierry Faidherbe <thierry.faidherbe AT FOREM DOT BE>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:28:16 +0200
Earlier, by change, I found "a way" to recover during 
clone/stage on an AFD dev at same time : 

The trick is not to restore using client file index
(recoveries browsing files) but recovering using
SSID/Cloneid :

Query the SSID/CloneID of the SS you need to recover.
If the SSID copy has not be staged and purged yet
(in other word, still on AFD), you will get at least 
2 different cloneid, one for each copy of the ssid 
(one on the write enabled AFD volume, 
 one for the read-only AFD volume).

eg :

SSID      CLONE ID    Name  Volume
12345678  123456789   c:\   Test
12345678  123456790   c:\   Test.RO

When AFD read-only part is reading (for recover,clone or stage, doesn't
matter), 
if you recover using SSID/Cloneid and use Cloneid of the SSID copy from 
the Write-enabled volume like
"recover -S 12345678/123456789 [-d <alternate_loc>] path_to_recover"
it will read from write-enabled AFD device while the
read-only one is reading.

I discovered it by chance, when scripting new staging batch
when I did forget to specify ".RO" in <volume>.RO name in 
piped mminfo for staging cmd during operators did recover using GUI.

Not using that trick very often but it worked each time in 
case of emergency recover. 

HTH

Th


Kind regards - Bien cordialement - Vriendelijke groeten,

Thierry FAIDHERBE
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Objet : Re: [Networker] NetWorker 7.6 SP2 restoring while cloning

On 05/06/2011 11:19 PM, STANLEY R. HORWITZ wrote:
> I know in earlier NetWorker versions, doing a restore from an advanced
> file type device while it is sending data to another device for cloning
> wasn't possible. I am testing 7.6 SP2 RA with a new Data Domain and it
> seems that same limitation is present. Does anyone know a way around that
> where files can be recovered from a DD Boost device while it is being
> cloned?

  Come on Stan, let's not be naive about that. EMC had years to fix this 
issue and the reason they didn't was that a too good AFTD (maybe even 
with dedup, like PureDisk) will compete with their VTLs. Now that they 
own Data Domain (and BRS is actually DD), they need to fix it, but I am 
pretty sure that you will not see any improvements for AFTD without DD 
(that is why DD boost is here).

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