You are correct, there is no log information.  What is happening is, as
someone here surmised, the DB is being formatted.  I normally get
messages while it is formatting, if I remember right, but it does take a
long time.  I am on AIX though, not Windows.

Andy Carlson

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Remeta, Mark wrote:

> Thanks Daniel. I haven't even begun the database restore yet.
> Also I do not believe there is any log information since I erased
> the existing logs before I started the format.
>
>
> Mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:Daniel.Sparrman AT EXIST DOT SE]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:53 AM
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> 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.
>
> 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
>
>
> -----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
> Subject: Re: Database and log format question.
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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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