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Re: Database and log format question.

2004-04-28 10:25:39
Subject: Re: Database and log format question.
From: Remco Post <r.post AT SARA DOT NL>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:18:52 +0200
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:52:58 +0200
Daniel Sparrman <Daniel.Sparrman AT EXIST DOT SE> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> My guess is that it's commiting log information. During DB restore,
> the restore is sequential. However, when commiting the log
> information, it is commiting the log on a per transaction basis. If
> you're logs where highly used during your last db backup, this could
> explain why it's taking so long for the TSM server to mount the log.
> 
> Remember, that during inital startup after a db restore, the TSM
> server will do a recovery log roll-back, and commit all transactions
> within the TSM log.
> 

Ok, now, Windows is different of course, but I just did about the same
thing to an AIX server, TSM 5.2.1.2 on AIX 5.2 in 64 bit mode.

Logformatting took us about 5 minutes for a 13GB log, the db volumes
were not formatted.

Restoring my 27 000 000 pages of database took about 2:30 hours, up and
running in 3. Now, I do have about the fastest disks money can buy for
my TSM server (15k RPM, 2 GB/s FC-AL), so you might expect a bit less
performance on your windows system, but still, things should be about
comparable.

Log mounting of a freshly formatted log should take about 0 seconds.

> Best Regards
> 
> Daniel Sparrman
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> ok the server specs are a quad 1.4ghz pentium 4, 4gb memory running
> win2k advanced server.
> What I did was erase the old log and database volumes, then do a
> dsmserv -k
> format with the log and database volume specs.
> It created the volumes and formatted the recovery log volumes rather
> quickly.
> After it format's the recovery log volumes it does a recovery log
> volume mount.
> This is what is taking so long.
> I've been monitoring the IO and it seems to be doing something to the
> database disk, perhaps formatting the database volumes too? I don't
> know. I've done this before but never with a database this large.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:justin.bleistein AT SUNGARD DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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> 3 hours? Wow!. What's are the hardware specs of your tsm server? What
> else is going on, on that system (topas, if AIX, or top)?
> I would probably consider running either a database audit or re-org,
> then try mounting it again.
> thanks!
> 
>       On more thing, are you starting the server up again in the 
> foreground
> or background?. If your initially trying to start it up in
> the background, kill it and start it up in the foreground first then
> let it
> do all of it's redo log record and undo passes, as well as log mount.
> Then once it's up, and you get a tsm server prompt. Then halt the
> server and restart it in the background for production operation
> at that point. Just another thought.
> 
> --Justin Richard Bleistein
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> Yesterday morning I had an incident and lost one of the drives I had
> about half my database volumes defined on.
> I'm in the process of reformatting the log and database volumes so I
> can do
> a database restore.
> The database is 100gb and my log size is 13gb.
> It's been mounting the log volumes for over 3 hours now.
> Does anyone have any experience with a database this large in as far
> as approximately how long it will take to format and mount the
> database/log volumes?
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> Thanks in advance,
> Mark Remeta
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