stsadm restore taking forever?

I'm doing a backup and restore of my sharepoint sites. Some of these sites
are very large--let's say 1GB each.

For some of my smaller sites, the stsadm.exe -backup command churned out
.dat files at the rate of up to 3MB a second. Not too shabby. However, the
stsadm.exe -restore command runs FAR slower. A 3MB site takes about 5
*minutes* to restore. At this rate, it's going to take well over a week to
restore several larger (1GB+) sites.

In a nutshell, Is there any way to speed up the restore? Any settings to
use, any IIS tweaks to perform, etc? We had no idea it was going to take
this long...

Thanks,
Ryan

Todd
Mon Mar 21 09:18:35 CST 2005

It's been my experience that STSADM backups run about 12 GB an hour. I
thought restores ran about the same, but it sounds like you're seeing slower
times. I don't know of any way to speed a single process up, but I know
that in my very limited testing it appears that STSADM is itself the
bottleneck in the process, so if you're restoring several sites, running
multiple STSADM instances on one server, or spreading it out to several if
you have them greatly increases your aggregate throughput.

tk
"Ryan Reed" <grover173rrh-newsgroups@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm doing a backup and restore of my sharepoint sites. Some of these
> sites are very large--let's say 1GB each.
>
> For some of my smaller sites, the stsadm.exe -backup command churned out
> .dat files at the rate of up to 3MB a second. Not too shabby. However,
> the stsadm.exe -restore command runs FAR slower. A 3MB site takes about 5
> *minutes* to restore. At this rate, it's going to take well over a week
> to restore several larger (1GB+) sites.
>
> In a nutshell, Is there any way to speed up the restore? Any settings to
> use, any IIS tweaks to perform, etc? We had no idea it was going to take
> this long...
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>