>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Costa [mailto:chris.costa AT veritas DOT com] 
>Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:48 PM
>To: Smith Colin-WCCS07
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Getting decent performance from bpduplicate?
>
>
>Unfortunately the purchase of the vaulting piece will not help 
>you in terms of speeding up the duplication of  a multiplexed 
>backup. The reason for the slow time is the searching of the 
>individual images for the duplication process. It will look to 
>"concatenate" a multiplexed backup this where the "bottleneck" is.

I don't really have a problem with individual duplications having to scan 
through the tape, It's pretty much what I expected. The issue I have with it is 
that there are 7 other drives sitting idle. They could be scanning through 
other tapes at the same time. I can't seem to find a way to get them into use 
though.

-- 
Colin Smith