On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:12:57AM -0500, Peter Grace wrote:
> Here's my predicament..  I have a tape changer where I don't have direct 
> access to, where the "remote" legato server is.  We bring the tapes back 
> from this area and, when we need something restored, restore them 
> locally.  Usually this involves me using scanner -i -S <ssid> <tape 
> drive> to import the tape's contents into my local drive, but this is 
> time consuming.  I'm wondering if there's a better way.

If nothing else, maybe you can reduce the timeframe.

Are you scanning the whole tape?  You can limit the scan to be just the
saveset(s) you're interested in.  That's helpful if your savesets are
small relative to the amount of data on the tape.

If you're restoring the entire dataset, you can scan the data directly
to disk in one pass rather than scan first then go back and do a
restore.

Either might be helpful depending on your workflow.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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