Roger - Topic "Restoral performance" in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts summarizes factors which will help. In particular, minimize MOUNTRetention so that drives are ready for the next mount asap. If possible, see if your networking people can provide direct, high- speed networking to that client, at least for this emergency. Where fast recovery is needed, it may in some cases be realistic to start the restoral alongside the server, as for example where you could have a same-OS surrogate client with same-filesystem-type internal or external drives where you could repopulate them via restoral and then give them over to the disaster site to plug into their system as is. An alternative is to start collocating via Move Data ahead of the pending restoral effort, to help make that faster. This would also deal with the almost inevitable case of some long-unused tapes which are now difficult to read, ahead of time.
I'm sure others, who have had to deal with such a situation, will post other ideas. Richard Sims at Boston University (no fires yet)
