Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Archive and Restore taking forever on DR server

It also sounds like a name resolution problem.
You could put an entry for Server-A pointing to the recovery server's IP address in hosts. Probably would be easier to just fix the name resolution issue as when you go to the next server you will most likely have the same problem. Good luck!

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Hmm ... "relying on" could be a problem. Are the systems configured to use DNS first ... a DNS that is not there? Every host name resolve has to wait while a DNS request or two (secondaries) times out? If DNS server is not available, remove resolv.conf and check the hosts: line of /etc/nsswitch.conf. Long shot, but duplex mismatches on the master or GUI host network can cause big slow downs. Take the network and GUI out of the equation by using the command line on the master. Get a file listing with a command line this: bplist -B -C <client> -unix_files -l -t 0 -R -s 01/01/2011 -e 02/09/2011 / -t 0 is backup type. 0 is Standard. 13 is Windows-NT. -A instead of -B if you want the file list from archives rather than backups. The man page for bplist will fill in more details if needed. ------------------ Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com | Jim.VandeVegt AT PhysiciansMutual DOT com Insurance for all of us.™ health | life | retirement ________________________________________ From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Heathe Yeakley [hkyeakley AT gmail DOT com] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 15:58 To: Infantino, Joseph Cc: NetBackup Mailing List Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup Archive and Restore taking forever on DR server My apologies, I should have added that. In my live environment, I have two servers: ziggurat - Master/Media RHEL4 obelisk - media RHEL4 For "DNS" I'm just relying on the /etc/hosts file as I'm only trying to recover 5 systems. The source system that I'm restoring from is not here, not have we built a replica on it. I'm trying to browse files that were backed up on server-A in my live environment and restore them to server-B here in the DR environment. I can browse down the directory tree, it just takes 20 minutes to do what I can do in 10 seconds in prod. I'm assuming it's trying to call out the server-A. I don't see why it should have to do that since the metadata for the restore files should be in the catalog here on my master server. -Thanks. - HKY On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Infantino, Joseph <jinfanti AT harris DOT com> wrote: > What is the OS of the Master and Media server(s)? > Is DNS working "flawlessly?" > > Thank you, > > Joseph A. Infantino II > BackUp/Recovery Administrator > HARRIS IT Services > Assured Infrastructure Management > Office: 321-724-3011 | Fax: 321-724-3392 > Email: joseph.infantino AT harris DOT com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Heathe Yeakley > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:24 PM > To: NetBackup Mailing List > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Archive and Restore taking forever on DR server > > I'm at a DR exercise. I've installed, patched, configured NBU and > successfully imported a catalog. I'm in Backup, Archive Restore and > using the "Directory Structure" pane to drill down to the files I want > to restore. I'm restoring files to an alternate server than the one > where the original files were taken from. I've set the parameters for > source and destination and everything looks good. When I pull up my > list of available backups, the list takes like 5 minutes to pull up. I > select the policy I want to restore from and it takes like 5 minutes > to put the directory tree in the "Directory Structure" pane. I select > the icon next to root to expand root, and it takes like 5 minutes to > show me the next layer. > > You get the idea. On my master server back home, this process takes > seconds. Boom, boom, boom. I drill down select my file and go. > > Here I expand root, then 5 minutes later I expand /dirA, then 5 > minutes later I expand /dirA/dirB... > > I've been digging around for about 30 minutes to see if there's some > type of a timeout setting or something that's causing this. > > Have any of you seen this before? > > - Heathe Kyle Yeakley > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu >http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu> _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT eduhttp://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu____________________________________________________________ This message and any attachments are confidential, may contain privileged information, and are intended solely for the recipient named above. 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