Robert Maiello wrote:
>That said,  since the SLDTs have more capacity (we sometimes get 400GB on a
>tape) I see a lot of the restore time is spent positioning the tape to get
>to the files..ie (moving forward 3000 records)..  With all new tapes
>technologies getting bigger I can see why Legato might reccommend using
disk
>devices...the positioning to get to files on a tape can take quite a bit of
>time.

We don't worry much about recover time as far as individual file restores
are concerned.

We will go for disk because it allows our backups to complete faster.
Pushing data to tape from disk avoid shoeshining and keeps the number of
drives down.


greetings,

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