Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore
2009-01-08 09:58:16
Dave,
I would give that a try, but first, do ONE of the subdirectories, a small one
to make sure that works first, e.g.: /C/EMACROFNP10/DFS_Data, then do the
entire /C/EMACROFNP10.
Then post your results :)
Justin.
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Clooney, David wrote:
> Thanks Justin
>
> The image contains just under 2 million files and comes in around 540GB.
>
> This restore is currently still Queued and has been so for an hour and a
> half. It's the first restore of the entire contents of the backup I have
> attempted.
>
> The selection I chose using "bp" is listed below, are you suggesting I go
> one directory deeper and selected all the individual located in
> /C/EMACROFNP10/
>
> ?Selections: 1 Current Path: /
>
> ?
> ? Backup Date
>
> ?
> ?* 01/08/2009 10:03:52 /C/EMACROFNP10/
>
> ?
> ? 01/08/2009 10:03:52 /C/EMACROFNP10/DFS_Data/
>
> ?
> ? 01/08/2009 10:03:52 /C/EMACROFNP10/Data/
>
> ?
> ? 01/08/2009 10:03:52 /C/EMACROFNP10/OBPO Profiles/
>
> ?
> ? 01/08/2009 10:03:52 /C/EMACROFNP10/QaQuotasV4.dat
>
> ?
>
> Regards
>
> Dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
> Sent: 08 January 2009 14:27
> To: Clooney, David
> Cc: judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn
> DOT edu
> Subject: Re: 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore
>
>
>
> 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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