I'd like to find this out myself, because I've asked Veritas and they 
said it can only do one tape at a time on restores of this nature. Not 
sure about others. We only backup via NDMP. Maybe it is that way for 
NDMP, only.

Cornely, David wrote:
> Well, that's different from what I've been told and what I've seen in the
> past.  
> I was under the impression that if you backed up using multiple streams/tape
> drives that's the way your restore would run.  And in fact I've tested this
> on other media servers and witnessed this behavior first hand.  I'm thinking
> there's either a misconfiguration or bug I'm missing.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Helfman [mailto:jason.helfman AT ticketmaster DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:24
> To: Cornely, David
> Cc: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restores only using 1 tape drive
> 
> 
> This isn't a problem. It's a feature of Netbackup ;)
> 
> It won't restore in the same way it backed up. It can only restore on 1 
> tape at a time.
> 
> Cornely, David wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>Has anyone else seen this problem?  The backup uses multiplexing and
>>multiple streams across several tape drives yet when I kick off a restore
> 
> of
> 
>>the backup it only utilizes 1 tape drive.  I've got plenty available as
>>well.
>>The environment is NBU3.4_5 running on Solaris 2.6/8.  It's an alternate
>>client restore so I don't know if that could have something to do with it.
>>We've seen this with other restores - any insight would be helpful.
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>-Dave
>>
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