>How many drives do you have?  You can set the migration process to more
>than one which will allow you to write to multiple tapes at once.  I will a
>lot of times set up administrative schedules to change the migration levels
>so that while clients are backing up to disk, migration will not be
>running.  When I know that all of the backups are complete then change to
>lower values that will kick off migration.  You can have client backups go
>directly to tape which is usually faster but this will only works well if
>you don't have more clients than drives because each client will tie up a
>drive.  We often will have large (oracle, db2, etc.) database backups go
>directly to tape.