If you are using a Windows Admin server, a much better option than setting the 
INITIAL_BROWSE_SEARCH_LIMIT in bp.conf is to disable the "perform default 
search" option in the NBU client properties. It's on the General tab and is 
enabled by default.

When you browse backups with the option turned off, all of the backup images 
are listed -and selected, but you have to manually start the search.  This 
allows you to select only the backup images of interest before starting the 
search.

-Neil

 
-----Original Message-----
From: King, Cheryl [mailto:cheryl.king AT intrado DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:33 PM
To: Jack L. Forester, Jr.; Rockey Reed
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Generating file list for restore takes hours - NBU DC 
4.5FP5

I think I had the same problem you're having.  I added
INITIAL_BROWSE_SEARCH_LIMIT = 14 to /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf to
limit the initial search to 14 days.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jack L.
Forester, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:06 PM
To: Rockey Reed
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Generating file list for restore takes hours -
NBU DC 4.5FP5

I was looking at the Sysadmin Guide for 4.5 with regards to indexing the
catalog, but it says that catalog indexing does not apply to binary
catalogs, and I'm fairly certain that these catalogs are binary format.

Rockey Reed wrote:

>On the master run bpimage -index 9.  This will greatly improve NBU's 
>performance in finding the files to restore.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rockey J. Reed
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jack L.
>Forester, Jr.
>Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 2:15 PM
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Generating file list for restore takes hours - 
>NBU DC 4.5FP5
>
>We're running up against the problem where NBU takes a long time 
>generating the file list for a restore with lots of files when binary 
>catalogs are in use.  While I'm waiting on a response from Veritas, I 
>was wondering if there is anything that can be done to make the process

>less painful.  Would using the -s and -e options to bprestore help 
>narrow down the search?  We had a restore that was queued for over 2.5 
>hours before we killed it out of frustration.
>
>We're planning on moving to 5.1 about a month from now.  Is this still 
>an issue with 5.1?
>
>  
>


--
Jack L. Forester, Jr.
UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf
Lockheed Martin Information Technology
(304) 625-3946

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