Even though NBU "allows" this capability, I would expect that 
simultaneously demuxing interleaved data from a piece of tape would be 
extremely slow. I'ts been a while since we had tape in our environment, 
so I I'm definitely not speaking from experience! :)

PS to the OP: If you're nut running VI3 with VCB, I would consider it.





Anthony Tocco wrote:
> thats not a true statement there is a way to restore multiple systems 
> at the same time.  There is a setting that say allow MULTIPLEX 
> restores....
>  
> also if you dupe it to disk it still won't work the way you are thinking
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Steven L. Sesar
> *Sent:* Wed 5/2/2007 15:49
> *To:* VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Quickest way to restore servers
>
> Actually, I just read the last line of your post. It just might work if 
> you dupe the media to disk. Try it.
>
>
>
> netbackup-forum at backupcentral.com wrote:
> > Need some help...my situation is this...had a major corruption on our SAN 
> > which corrupted over 100 servers (VMs).  Many of the servers wrote to the 
> > same tape (SSO / Multiplexing).  NBU 6.0 w/ MP4.  The issue I am having is 
> > if 10 svrs wrote to that same tape, server 2 won't kickoff until server 1 
> > is done w/ that tape...is there a quicker way...
> >
> > If I duplicate that tape to SAN disk, will I be able to pull muliple data 
> > steams from that data?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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