At 10:05 AM 11/24/97 PST, Martha Friedrich wrote:
>The only thing we do different is the STORE/RESTORE routine -
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>I prefer the DIRECTORY option on the STORE command rather than the BULDACCT
>job routine.  I also make a special store tape of certain accounts so I can
>restore them immediately after the directory is in place.
>

I agree with Martha although I have seen an occasional problem with the
DIRECTORY option.  Using BULDACCT has other advantages particularly if you
combine changes in volume sets at the same time you do an INSTALL.

>STORE @[log in to unmask]@;*T;DIRECTORY;SHOW
>STORE @[log in to unmask],@[log in to unmask],@[log in to unmask];*T;show

I would suggest another approach.  Rather than two differet STOREs, do one
STORE with an indirect file.  The indirect file would look like this:

@[log in to unmask]
@[log in to unmask]
@[log in to unmask]
@[log in to unmask]
@[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@.VESOFT

(I'll explain this in a sec)

The STORE command would look like this:

STORE !indirectfilename;*T;SHOW;DIRECTORY

This has the advantage of having a single store set while conveniently
putting the files which would be restored first at the beginning of the
tape set.

Note the "[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@.VESOFT".  This eliminates a *bunch*
of messages during the STORE which STORE reports when trying to store a
files already stored (make sense??).

Lastly, I would suggest another permutation which has some performance
benefit.  Since you will be controlling the location on tape where you put
files, you will also be controlling location on disk where you put files
when you restore them.  You can take greater advantage of this if you
extend your indirect file scenario to locate the most heavily accessed
files early on in the store.  This way, when you restore the files, they
will be going on to the outer cylinders of the disk effectively packing the
data into more efficiently accessed areas of disk.

If you want to discuss this more, let me know...

Bill Lancaster



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>then I restore PUB.SYS with the DIRECTORY first.   After the directory is
>restored I do multiple restores to quicken the "reload".  It takes me about
>6 hours to restore  8gig of data.
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>RESTORE ;@[log in to unmask];DIRECTORY;SHOW;KEEP;OLDDATE
>RESTORE ;@[log in to unmask],@[log in to unmask],@[log in to unmask];SHOW;KEEP;OLDDATE
>RESTORE ;@[log in to unmask]@;SHOW;KEEP;OLDDATE
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