On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, matthew zeier wrote:
Bah. 83% into things, my directories and files appeared. Guess I was looking for a bit more feedback than a df showing my disk space going away.
Actually, you've stumbled across a bug/feature that I can't get an answer out of NetApp on. When doing a restore (which is what the destination filer sees this as) you don't see the data you are restoring until one of two things happen.
A. It finished.
B. You unmount, and remount the filesystem.
Bizarre? Yes. Explainable...I'm sure.
This doesn't concern me as much in this scenario as it does for the day I restore my 200 gig of data onto a filer, and can't see any of the data until the restore is done. From a disaster recovery standpoint, I'd assumed that a restore would get some file structures in place right away, and things would continue to build in the background while I went on with other things.
Looks like that won't happen.