Very Slow Restore

I have a Dedicated NW5.1SP7 Backup Server that has 4 Tape Drives Attached
(Two DLT1 Drives and two LTO2 Drives)
I am running the Latest Build of BE 9.1 (1156).... I have tweaked the TCP
settings as requested by Veritas...
The problem I am having is that it is taking 4 hours to Catalog a Tape containing
48 GB of Data then to make matters worse it's
taking 3.5 hours to restore a single 8kb file from the just cataloged Tape...
Server Utilization is running at 93%... I am also restoring to the Deicated
Tape Server....
This Server only function is Backup and Restore. Any Ideals besides Reformatting
and installing Win2003 Server and BE for Windows 10.x ?

Dennis

Dennis[color=blue]
> I have a Dedicated NW5.1SP7 Backup Server that has 4 Tape Drives Attached
> (Two DLT1 Drives and two LTO2 Drives)[/color]
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> I have tweaked the TCP settings as requested by Veritas...[/color]

Which TCP settings are those? If you're restoring locally (i.e.
restoring data from a tape to the local backup/media server), then
TCP/IP shouldn't even come into it.
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> The problem I am having is that it is taking 4 hours to Catalog a Tape containing
> 48 GB of Data[/color]

If you're doing a full catalog of a tape (i.e. without using the on
media catalogs), then it's going to take a long time since the software
has to read in every single block on the tape and reconstruct catalogs
for the tape.
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> then to make matters worse it's
> taking 3.5 hours to restore a single 8kb file from the just cataloged Tape...
> Server Utilization is running at 93%...[/color]

Ouch - now that's just not working right. In your besvr.cfg file, is the
line "Use_fast_file_access" set to 1? Are you restoring from a backup
set that spanned tapes?

Michael
--
"If it jams, force it. If it breaks, you probably
needed a new one anyway"

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I know this thread is almost 2 years old but it helped me so I thought I'd
mention that to others with similar problems.

Editing the "Use_fast_file_access" set to 1" in the BESVR.CFG file fixed the
problem. What was taking hours to restore now took only 7 minutes.

THANKS!!!!


"Michael" <boing@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d3c975b28733e7d9897bf@news.support.veritas.com...[color=blue]
> Dennis[/color]
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> Ouch - now that's just not working right. In your besvr.cfg file, is the
> line "Use_fast_file_access" set to 1? Are you restoring from a backup
> set that spanned tapes?
>
> Michael[/color]