Hi,
I just performed a ndmpcopy on my filer. I ran an ls -lR on the original location and on the new location. The files and sizes were identical, the directory sizes differed. Anyone have any ideas why?
Thanks
Manny
Manny, was the directory smaller or larger?
If it was smaller, then I think you are seeing the effect of NDMPcopy shrinking directories down the size they currently need to be -- not keeping them as big as they ever were.
For example, let's say that you once had a directory "junk" full of tons of files. It grew to be a 72KB directory b/c of those entries.
Then, one day you deleted a bunch of those entries because you decided to re-structure, cleanup, or whatever.
Well, now your directory may have one entry in it, but it still says it is 72KB in size.
Well, when you NDMPcopy that directory, we will create a new directory "junk" that has just the one entry in it. So the directory will only be 4KB, not a 72KB directory with all the unused entries in it.
(Another way to achieve this effect would be: 1) mkdir new_dir 2) mv junk/* new_dir/ 3) rmdir junk 4) mv new_dir junk )
If the directory was larger, perhaps the restore_symboltable file was _just_ the entry needed to push the directory from (n * 4KB) to ((n +1) * 4KB)) ?
Stephen Manley DAM and NDMP Pop Tart