Phase 2 is running now. @ 60% for the past half hour.

I will be letting it finish. I need to get an idea of what is wrong so that it can be prevented in the future.

A restore on another set...

older copy of the same DB restored to a test server shows over 1200 vlf. Autogrow is set to 5000MB

Log file is 244,800,000 KB

A transaction log backup ran at 6AM before the reboot at 10:30. It was 17,520,339GB.

Recovery interval is set to default.

I'm up to 52% now. It was at 47% at 7:00am. I'm expecting it will be quite a few more hours now.

~3.5 MB/min reads from the log file, no appreciable reads or writes to the data files.

Restore (to another attached drive) is running ~6GB/min, on another channel.

There doesn't seem to be...

While this is on a SAN, I'm not seeing performance issues there. No significant disk queues, only one core appears to be doing much of anything (out of 12),...

Recovery is progressing-- albeit slowly. It is now at 50%

I have begun a restore of the backup from Saturday along with its log files-- which is already at 40%.

I...