lphilpot wrote:

Thanks for the response (sorry for the delay in my reply here).

As it turns out, if I wait long enough, typically 45 minutes to an hour, 
nsrindexd and nsrmmdbd eventually start and things look normal enough. However, 
I cannot figure out why they're taking that long to start. No relevant log 
entries, etc. It's not that those two daemons are spawned early and chug for a 
while; they just don't launch at all until much later. Apparently nsrd just 
isn't spawning them until after a long while... ??

I thought it might be (some of) the licenses causing the delay, so I deleted 
every one but the base enabler when it was down using nsradmin. No difference. 
Well, one difference - When it came back up after an hour, it said the server 
was disabled and needed an enabler update. However, everything appeared to be 
running and all the enablers showed current (eval but future) expiration dates.

Who knows; this is really weird. I'm recovering /nsr again from my tar tape to 
test some more.

I've been told by Sun that the "approved" method is to mmrecov and go from 
there, which indeed is a good method. However, last time I did that (during a server 
upgrade) it took a couple of hours at least to recover the GBs of indexes after running 
mmrecov, despite Sun's assertion that it only takes 10 or 15 minutes. We're looking at a 
finite number of contiguous hours for a test in which this procedure will be used, so 
several hours of index recovery is not a viable option. Hence my interest in making this 
previously good procedure work.

Thanks for the info.

P.S. - I'm out all next week, so if I don't reply to anyone's post, please 
understand. :-)

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