On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Gardner, Jesse wrote:
> Casey,
>
> I see that symptom when we're doing restores of huge directories, (millions
> of files), or complex file/folder selection amidst huge directories. Are
> you being patient enough? Using Win2000, the Backup, Archive, and Restore
> window will hang after you start the restore, and finally say something to
> the effect of "The restore attempt timed out". It really is still working.
> You can see bpdbm.exe running in Task Manager, chewing up a lot of RAM and
> CPU. For some of our restores, this can take a half-hour or more, but it
> will eventually go.
>
Jesse,
Thanks for your tip. Looks like I was just being impatient. We do have
millions of files. I just hadn't seen that process go this slow before.
Take care,
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Casey Feskens <cfeskens AT willamette DOT edu>
System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant
Willamette University, Salem, OR
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