FSAUtility mass recall - File already exists
Morning all, can someone sanity check the following please?
Scenario:
I aim to recall all Files from EV FSA as follows:
fsautility -t -s \\path\path\path -recurse
The restore begins, builds, and tells me I have 50k files Queued For Restore. All fine up to this point. The XML report file then generates, indicating a large number of File Exists entries. I paste these results into an Excel and the File Exists entries total about 43k
So I can see a discrepency between the number of items that are Queued for Restore and the number of items in that XML that are coming back as File Exists
My question is - what does this mean?
Do I understand correctly that File Exists means EV confronted a Placeholder with the same name, OR an original file with the same name when it initiated the restore?
yes and that is done with the -f option in fsautility.
for reference from the Utilities.pdf document:
-f forces FSAUtility to restore the files when placeholders or files of the same
name already exist. The utility first deletes the existing placeholders or files and
then restores the files.
