On Thursday 07 December 2006 19:53, Dearman, Richard wrote: > One of oour main windows 2003 server crahsed today and the san disk it > turs out is corrupted and we need to restore 2TB of user files to a new > server. > > The users cannot login to their workstations because this server is used > in our login process and each user maps a home directory to a share on > that server when they login. I am in the process of creating a backupset > so the restore can go quickly but our management needs the users to at > least be able to login even if there data is not restored yet. Creating a backset will take more time then just doing the restore. If you want to speed up the restore, you can move the data of that node to a disk based storage pool or just to 1 tape with the move nodedata command.
Stef
