There is another way: When you restore from the GUI it _does_ restore in parallel properly.
Justin. On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Curtis Preston wrote: > Nope, that's the only way. > > > > ________________________________________________________ > Curtis Preston | VP Data Protection > GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. > > T: +1 760 710 2004 | C: +1 760 419 5838 | F: +1 760 710 2009 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glasshouse.com > <http://www.glasshouse.com/> > Infrastructure :: Optimized > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Jeremy Finn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:35 AM > To: Curtis Preston > Cc: smpt; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring from Multiplexed Backup > > > > Curtis, > > Thank you for your reply. > > I have tried your suggestion and it is working. I see a slight > performance increase when doing the mpx restore now, which should > translate to higher gains when restoring more data. > > One more question for everyone: I need to rename files as well. Is the > best option to use bprestore -R <renamefile> or is there another trick > that works better? Can I use the same rename file for each bprestore > command or should I make one for each stream? > > Thanks again, > Jeremy > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Curtis Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > It's been a while since I tested this, but _I_ remember that if you > wanted it to restore the way he wants, you HAD to issue five different > restores at the same time and use the restore delay feature to start > them at the same time. If you just selected five directories, it did > them one at a time. That's why I always did my multi-filesystem > restores as a loop > > > > for I in /a /b /c /d /e > > do > > bprestore $I > > done > > > > ________________________________________________________ > Curtis Preston | VP Data Protection > GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. > > T: +1 760 710 2004 | C: +1 760 419 5838 | F: +1 760 710 2009 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glasshouse.com > <http://www.glasshouse.com/> > Infrastructure :: Optimized > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of smpt > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:30 AM > To: 'Jeremy Finn'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring from Multiplexed Backup > > > > Do you select all mount points at the same restore? If yes, then you > will see only one job, but netbackup will restore all files in one tape > pass. > > > > If you start 5 restores the you have to be fast (every restore must > start within 30 sec, by default). This can be changed from master server > properties. > > stefanos > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy > Finn > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 3:26 PM > To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring from Multiplexed Backup > > > > Hello, > > I have a standard backup policy configured to stream five mount points > to one tape drive. This is working fine. > > When I do the restore, I only see one stream restoring at a time. Is it > possible to restore the five streams of data from the multiplexed tape > at the same time? > > Other backup softwarescan do this so I assume Netbackup can as well... > if some could please point me in the right direction it would be much > appreciated. > > My environment looks like this: > > Master: Solaris 10 on SPARC > Media Server: HP-UX on PA-RISC > Source Client: HP-UX on PA-RISC > Target Client: HP-UX on PA-RISC > Multistream = 5 > Multiplex = 5 > One LTO-1 tape drive > > Thank you in advance for any insights. > > Jeremy > > > > > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the > system manager. This message contains confidential information and is > intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named > addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. > > > > > > > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If > you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This > message contains confidential information and is intended only for the > individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu