On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Stephen Manley wrote:
For now, though, you could always do a "sysstat" on the filer console, and see that the filer is doing something. Of course, that's better for tape than NDMPcopy. After all, if you see the tape #'s doing something, you can say - "Yeah, that's restore." Not so easy when the data is coming in off the net...
Sorry, I should have been more clear. My filer contains a tree of data that a web server serves up to the net. In a mass restore situation, I want to put the web server up right away on that small amount of data, and let the rest fill in in the background.
The idea here was that once we kicked off the restore, some data would be available right away, rendering the system 'up'. Proper balancing and placement of files on the filesystem would even ensure that the most important data came back first.