On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Clooney, David wrote:

> Hi All
>
> NBU 6.5.1   Master Solaris 10
> NBU 6.5.1 windows 2003 Media
>
> We have process whereas we split an HDS shadow image pair and mount the
> secondary volume onto the root of c: on one of our NBU windows media
> servers, then take a backup.
>
> i.e. once the process has completed the volume is C:\$voulme
>
> I have setup a flashbackup windows policy with \\.\C:\$volume as the
> criteria to backup.
>
> The backup works fine and sails through, and individual file restores
> complete successfully too however if I attempt to restore the whole
> volume from the backup the restore job just stays in a queued state with
> no indication as to whether there is some background processing going
> on.
>
> Flashbackup is new to our environment and was wondering whether this is
> normal behaviour, or indeed if this is perhaps a known issue. None of
> the virtual tapes used for the backup are mounted and there are no tar
> processors active on the media server?
>
> If any could shed some light it would be appreciated
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave

Dave,

When I used Flash Backup, I only used it on UNIX (Solaris) and never Windows.
However, I will mention the restore did seem to take some time to get started,
8-12 minutes or so for a 10,000 files or so?  I never attempted to restore the
entire volume but the files beneath the volume.

e.g.: C:\directory\myfiles

If you try to restore C:\directory\myfiles and not C:\ (where everything
is checked off) does it work then?

Does it ever timeout?  How long have you left it like that?

Justin.

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