A perfectly acceptable question...

You can create the empty file /nsr/debug/striped_recover  which will mount
position and then read several tapes at once during your recover.

Two limitations I found to this (Networker 6.1.2):

a. If your recover spans more tapes than the number of drives you have it
won't work..it wants to load and position all the tapes before starting the
recover.

b. Support from Legato is nil for this type of recover.


That said,  some people running version 7 may be able to confirm that it,
indeed, does this type of recover??

Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:10:09 -0400, Jody Gregersen
<Jody.Gregersen AT VISHAY DOT COM> wrote:

>Hi all,
>I'm having trouble trying to figure out why legato can't reverse engineer
>the way it backs up files to the way it restores files.  Why can't they set
>it up to read from the same amount of tapes as it writes to?  Are they
>planning to add this to the code at any time?  Basically what I'm asking is
>that if it writes in streams, why can't it read in streams?  I've been
>recovering 500 gig of data for the last 2 days and I have to turn around and
>do it again as soon as this one's done.  I understand that the parallelism
>and target sessions during the backup can be optimized for a restore but
>then it would take me 48 hours to back up the data.
>Thanks for any input,
>Jody
>
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