Wish I knew about this years ago, it fixed an issue you've similarly described that we've had with legacy W2K systems.
We created a VM with the settings below, copied the data over - yes it took time, but once finished; in one case keep the VM and in another case copied another servers data set back to Bare Metal.
It worked. Backups are much better, but more importantly - the restores!
Hello,
Using 7.5.0.3, restoring 1m+ files in a single directory, obviously this would take hours/days (bpdbm just runs forever) to start so what I am doing is splitting it into chunks and that is helping (it works) but was wondering if anyone on this list knows of any special:
DIRECTIVES for bpdbm in the bp.conf to optimize/help speed it up for restores?
It seems there are some interesting ones:
IS_ASCII_CATALOG_FILE_FORMAT
SKIP_NOTIFICATION_FOR_UNIT_TEST
INSIDE_CATALOG_CLEANUP
CLEANUP_KILLED_BY_SIGNAL
CATALOG_BACKUP_PARENT_JOBID
INSIDE_ASA_BACKUP
NB_BPDBM_TEST_DELAY_SOCKET_CLOSE
KEEP_EXISTING_DOTF_DURING_IMPORT
NB_BPDBM_ALIVE_LOCAL_TIMEOUT
There are more as well, does anyone have any tips to improve restore performance of lots of files?
Justin.