hi,
we got legato to do a backup and now we are trying a restore. i deleted a directory from the filer and selected it for restore.
we are ontap 5.36r2, so no direct access restore.
watching the filer from an nt machine, we immediately saw the file names come back, with 0 bytes and no attributes. much later the file sizes came back and the attributes, but legato keeps reading the tape and every 5 minutes we see the "we have read so many bytes" messages.
i would think once the files are back the restore would complete, will it go to the end of the tape?
Until 5.3.7, the restore process would go to the end of the tape -- looking for ACLs, even if there were none to restore.
In 5.3.7 and beyond, if there are no ACLs to be restored, then it realizes that it is done and stops. If there are ACLs to restore on the files you selected, it will still read the whole backup.
In 6.1 and beyond, the ACLs are also at the beginning of the tape, so you won't need to go to the end of the tape at all (unless that's where your file happens to be).
As you noted - the way restore works, we create the empty files first, then fill them in with data/perms as we run through the tape.
Stephen Manley DAM and NDMP former member of Destiny's Child