Bob
Sorry cant restore to another location ... there isnt one ! We are
talking 400GB of Data apparantly! And we have no space. I have no idea
what the exact filesizes should be, and I can only go on the information
given.

I have researched the -f but I may have a problem with this, as I will
need to get the exact physical path, rather than share path.
Should not be a major issue, as I can run this from the Server.

Thanks, Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: bob944 [mailto:bob944 AT attglobal DOT net] 
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 12:46 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Cc: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoration Issue

> Got a File Server with a share that is approx 400GB and contains 
> millions of files.
> San Media Win2k3 Sp2 & NBU 7.0.1 talking to a 7.0.1 Master
> 
> Problem: We have identified 40,000 files, of various types (ie:
> word, excel, jpeg, bmp, pdf) that are ZERO bytes. They appear to have 
> been like this for 4 months [...]
> 
> 1) Files are scattered across various folders / subfolders that are in

> use
> 2) I cant just restore everythink back to its original location, 
> because there are files that have been recently used and amended

Restoring from a file of filenames (as has been suggested), to a
different directory, would be my preference.  Then maybe script a
comparison between the list of zero-byte files and the ones you have
restored...

If that is impractical and you have a backup of the current state of the
server, zero-byte files and all, you could
a) rename/move/delete the zero-byte files and
b) restore the entire share to original location but do NOT check
Overwrite existing files.  You should get 40,000 restores and (millions
- 40,000) "file exists" messages in the log.



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