> If it's within your required parameters, then it's OK.

> It's obviously and trivially true that restoring from mulitplexed 
> tapes is slower, because the drive has to read data that's not 
> required to get to the data that is.

I don't agree.

Yes, the tape has to read more data, but if that new speed is still
higher than the restore speed the client can consume (whether limited by
network, disk/filesystem, or client performance), then the multiplexing
has no effect on restore speed.


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