Does the actlog say anything about the server determining which volumes are
required for the NQR restore? That process may take some time with 31 mill
objects.

03/31/17   13:06:10      ANR1183I Initial determination of removable volumes
                          required for a restore request from session
197526 is
                          complete. Additional volumes may still be
required.
                          (SESSION: 197526)

Hans Chr.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Zoltan Forray <zforray AT vcu DOT edu> wrote:

> >31-Million objects and 8TB and it is/should be a NQR since files weren't
> selected - just the whole D: drive.
>
> It finally started moving after 2+hours just sitting there.
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Lee, Gary <glee AT bsu DOT edu> wrote:
>
> > How many items are on the drive to be restored?
> > I have had some restores where the drive contains many items sit in idle
> > state for a long time while database activity is happening.
> >
> > I believe this was the rationale for the no query restore.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
> > Behalf Of
> > Zoltan Forray
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:31 PM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: [ADSM-L] How to determine why a session is in IdleW
> >
> > I have a user who has started a big restore (>31M objects and 8TB of
> data)
> > and all it keeps doing is sit in an IdleW state.
> >
> > He has tried restarting it numerous times, including rebooting this newly
> > rebuilt Windows 2012R2 server.  He has the latest 8.1 client.  He is not
> > receiving any error messages on the client side and I don't see anything
> > from the server side.
> >
> > It has now been waiting for >10,500 seconds (almost 3-hours).  I have
> > watched it from the server side and the Bytes Sent/Received have not
> > changed.  During one of his previous attempts, the server was running
> > replication but I killed it - did not make a difference.
> >
> > It should be considered an NQR since all he did was select the "D:" drive
> > and told it to start the restore.
> >
> > So how can I figure out what is going on?
> >
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