>Bruce Black wrote: >> If you have to recover one or a few datasets from a backup, restore from >> a -27 can take longer than from a -3. Can be an issue when some >> over-excited application manager is watching over your shoulder. > >I dare to disagree. Restore from backup does not depend on volume size. It depends on dataset size, tape technology, >backup application and many other things, but why volume size ? >BTW: I'm using HSM, maybe this is the point. >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka
IIRC, we were talking about full-volume DR type backups here. If you have to spin the backup to the end to find the dataset you're looking for, I would think it would affect the recovery time if the volume were a mod-27 as opposed to a mod-3. dd keller ************************************************************************************** This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. ************************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
