Paul,

Our NT admins did just that by doing an archive followed by a retrieve.
They were moving to a new machine.  You could also do it with backups,
probably several ways... here are two off the top of my head:

1. Change the backup copy group to "MODE=ABSOLUTE".  Do your backup.  Mode
absolute will cause all data to be backed up again, changed or not, so it
should all go on one tape.  I did this for a disaster recovery test once.
Don't forget to change back to MODE=MODIFIED when you're done.

2. Register a new node, if you have anavailable license.  Now run your
backup using "-virtualnodename={the new node}".  Do your restore with the
same -virtualnodename parameter.  When you're all done, delete the
filespace and the node.

HTH

Robin Sharpe
Berlex Laboratories




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Hi,

We need to restore an NT machine, in testing this, it takes approximately
30
hours.
this machine has 27 gb's of data, it is the users X: drive.

is there a way to do a backup to a specific tape and then restore from
there?

we are doing this for growth and replication purposes.

thanks
pc

Paul J Coviello
Sr Systems Analyst
Catholic Medical Center
2456 Brown Ave
Manchester NH 03103
(603) 663-5326
Pcoviello AT cmc-nh DOT org