I've seen the same issue here. I think it's because when you are previewing, NBU
gives you a list of the tapes required to restore the WHOLE image, but when you
do the actual restore, it uses the catalog information to skip directly to the
file you want, and only requests that tape.

Cheers

James

Quoting Matthew Hall <matt AT angui DOT sh>:

>
> I've had to do a few restores now, each time preview'ing from
> the Java GUI which tapes I needed. I would dutifully find and
> put the tapes into our library, and then perform the actual
> restore. Twice now, I've needed /less/ tapes - Vertias tells
> me that it only needs a smaller subset of the tapes when doing
> the actual restore. Why the discrepancy?
>
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