If you try the suggestions recommended here and it doesn't solve your problem, 
I suggest you seriously consider SnapImage. It has it's limitations but restore 
performance from tape is not the issue it's been represented to be here. And on 
a big slow disk with millions of files, there's no faster way to get 
file-granular backups to tape.

SnapImage sorts all the file extents in the restore list  before it starts so 
the restore is done in a single pass. Pieces get restored in tape order and 
assembled on the fly. It's certainly no slower than restoring from a normal 
multiplexed tape.

There are things about it that are a little more cumbersome though so you 
should make sure you really have a need for it before you go that direction.

> > > I think that other person meant that maybe there'd be a way 
> > > to use the "update" function within nsradmin to update the 
> > > client's list of savesets to be backed up, in an automated fashion.
> > 
> > I have no problem scripting nsradmin, but what does updating the client
> > record more frequently accomplish?  
> 
> I read the message not that it needs to be terribly frequent, but that
> it needs to be automated so that human intervention isn't needed to pick
> up new folders.
> 
> The frequency just gives the maximum time that can elapse between the
> creation (and population) of a folder and having it hit the backups.
> Daily would probably be sufficient in most environments.
> 
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