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- From: berliner@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Brian Berliner)
- Subject: Re: fast restores
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.151316.11200@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM>
- Keywords: restore, speedup
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov23.043712.2792@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:13:16 GMT
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- In <1992Nov23.043712.2792@cs.uow.edu.au> pdg@cs.uow.edu.au (Peter Gray) writes:
- >Below is a program I wrote to turn on delayed
- >I/O while doing restores. It improves the speed
- >of restores by about 500% on my machines.
-
- This "feature" was driven by the Backup Copilot product, which uses it in
- exactly the way that you describe -- to improve the speed of full restores.
- We do not recommend using this feature on file systems with data that you
- care about, however. It is ideally suited for disaster recovery, though,
- where you might not care if the machine crashes while in the middle of the
- file system restore -- as long as it doesn't happen 5 times in a row, since
- that's the improvement that you noted (we've measured higher, but it
- depends on a number of factors).
-
- Also, Backup Copilot includes a utility also called "fastfs". It is very
- much like yours, but a bit more feature filled -- ours can show you the
- status of all mounted file systems with a single call. But that's about
- the only big difference.
-
- >I also use it for /tmp rather than running tmpfs.
-
- I wouldn't recommend that. Only even think about doing this if your /tmp
- is its own file system. Otherwise, you will be disabling safe mode for
- your root file system, which is not a good idea. I'd just use tmpfs for
- /tmp. It will be faster than a "fastfs-enabled" /tmp UFS file system.
-
- -Brian
-