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On the weekend of 10/19 we did our unload/reload on what became a 820-24AA with 196.7GB at 73% full. Save ran from 20:50 to 06:33, or 9 hours 43 minutes. Now, those of you whom have been through this process know there are a lot of prompts to answer. Basically we started to restore lic at 09:09. That, and the disk initialization and some other crud ran until 13:59. At this time we started the OS restore. This, and the user libraries ran until 06:16 when we got a message about partially restored (some device configurations, etc) At 10:20 we answered the message (I was out hunting) and the RSTDLO's and stuff started. This restore ended at 13:00. Then, to ensure that we had restored logicals which span libraries we ran the following: RSTLIB SAVLIB(*ALLUSR) DEV(TAP03) ENDOPT(*UNLOAD) OPTION(*NEW) MBROPT(*NEW) ALWOBJDIF(*ALL) This started at 13:29 and ran until 18:56. Our downtime instructions was 20 pages and included all pertinent information from "Backup and Recovery Guide". And included cum's and various group PTF's. Times, and other notes, were written in the margins as we went along. And this 196.7 at 73% full fit on ONE 3581 tape versus the five 3570 tapes it used to take. Rob Berendt ================== "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin "Bruce Collins" <bacollins@twitchel To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> lcorp.com> cc: Sent by: Fax to: midrange-l-admin@mi Subject: RE: ULTRIUM TAPE DRIVE - LTO drange.com 11/08/2001 01:31 PM Please respond to midrange-l I had heard that it was very fast on saves but you took a beating on restores. Has anyone else have any history on this drive doing a restore. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Gwecnal@aol.com [mailto:Gwecnal@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 12:13 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: ULTRIUM TAPE DRIVE - LTO In a message dated 11/8/2001 5:58:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, "Bruce Collins" <bacollins@twitchel writes: > We are buying a 820 DDS and they have on the config for a tape drive the > following: 3580-H11 ULTRIUM TAPE DRIVE - LTO > Has anyone heard any issues with this device. Our new 820 came with one. Our old system had two 3490's that held six tapes each. Our backups took 3.5 hours and we were running out of room. Now the backup takes 55 minutes and we could back up every day for a week on one tape! The downside - restores are SLOW!!!! So slow, I thought we must be doing something wrong. How slow? About an hour to restore a file located toward the end of the backup with *search. About 45 minutes if you specify the sequence number, but the only way to know that is to do a dsptap - and that takes 20-25 minutes. In fact, restoring all user libraries does not take much longer than restoring just one file (if the file is near the end of the backup). Great for backup - but do not put a lot of data on the tape and use it for a lot of interactive restores. Funny thing - the network guys were so impressed that they bought the pc version (same thing but uses 'low voltage scsi?') and thier backup AND restore times are blazing quick. Go figure. HTH, Lance _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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