We realize this extra file after restore may cause some confusion. Also, a system-generated file should not be mixed with user files. We are looking at ways to move this file to somewhere else in the future.
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-----Original Message----- From: Chris Thompson [mailto:cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:53 AM To: MadDog@fool.com Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: restore_symboltable
MadDog@fool.com (Tom "Mad Dog" Yergeau) writes:
Has anyone ever seen a file called restore_symboltable pop into a directory after an NDMP restore?
restore_symboltable is a file that appears in (the root of) the directory tree being restored into. It holds information that allows subsequent stages of an incremental restore to work correctly.
That's with just the basic "restore", but I imagine "NDMP restore" uses the same mechanisms.
I'm running 6.1R1 and doing an alternate location restore on the same filer.
The file is always 2.20 GB in size.
The size will be determined by the size of the inode table in the *dumped* filing system.
Usually, one should remove restore_symboltable after (but not before) all stages of an incremental restore have been completed.
Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.