>BTW, check out the restore time from a ExHPDM tape - that can be an eye >opener!
We worked through the restore issues with ExHPDM when we first incorporated it. Very simply put, its VERY important that the restores run in the same order as the backups and that restore jobs are queued up and waiting to run when a volume's first block of data is found on the steaming tape. Running things out of order does indeed cause extremely slow restore times as, depending on the settings, tapes are either rewinding or skipping over data to get the data needed for restores. Once we had the methodology down we were able to restore our 2.7 TB of data to non-STK disk in less than 5 hours. Remember it was backed up in less than two hours - the restore to non-STK is important to note since this forces our native STK compressed data on the tape to be decompressed by FDR as it does the restores. Jeffrey Deaver, Senior Analyst, Systems Engineering 651-665-4231 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
