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Multiple restores and mediawait

2002-02-07 01:57:12
Subject: Multiple restores and mediawait
From: Kelly Lipp <lipp AT STORSOL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:53:13 -0700
If a restore is using a tape and another restore is waiting on the same
volume, how long will the waiting restore process wait?  I'm thinking
mountwait time here.  But what sort of errors will one get at the end of
that time?  Will the restore simply die, or will it error on the files that
are on the tape and move on?  Or will it just keep waiting until it can get
the volume?

I've a customer doing a restore that is having this problem.  At one point
we got a large number of

ANR0548W restore failed for file mumblefratz stored as backup - data
integrity error

followed by

ANE4035W error processing file mumblefratz : file currently unavailable on
the server.

then the dreaded anr9999D sstrans.c blah, blah, blah

When we went back to restore the files again later, voila, we got them just
fine.

Perhaps a definitive "this is what happens" could be supplied here.

I know, I know, collocate at the filespace level and this won't happen,
maybe.

Thanks gang.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
lipp AT storsol DOT com or kelly.lipp AT storserver DOT com
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
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