We're looking into this (NDMP backups) and the "can't restore a directory" problem might be an issue.
If you want to restore a directory, then, you have to find every file from that point down & restore it individually? Will it create missing subdirectories, ie: restoredir/file1 restoredir/file2 restoredir/subdir1/file1 restoredir/subdir1/file2 ...If the above was your list of files to be restored, does "subdir1" get created? -M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:45 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] time for NDMP restores Did you request to restore files or folders? DAR is not supported for directory restores - so it is *very* important that you pick files to restore, and never folders. Otherwise it scans the whole tape, even if it already found what you wanted. William D L Brown "Paul Keating" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14-Dec-2005 16:29 To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] time for NDMP restores Hi all. it's been years since I've worked with NDMP much (NB 3.x and Auspex file servers), with 32 and 64 gig filessytems so I'm re-learning everything with NetApp, NB5.0 and TB+ filesystems, and refreshing lots of old memories. seems a restore, even of a couple files from a 600+ Gig FS backup (home directoy FS) takes HOURS....like 5-7 hours. The progress monitor shows the tape mounted, positioned, etc, then sits there for hours with no KB/s or KB restored reported, then, bam, it's done. this more or less normal? If so, do you folks have SLAs that account for this kind of timeframe for restores? or do you you snapshots exclusively for restores of user data and only use tape for DR? Paul _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
