> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Stuart Whitby wrote:

>   Anyhow when you recover a large volume, my experience shows that the
> bottleneck is always the file-system traversal of the target filesystem
> and not the backup system. This is usually the problem with backups as
> well.

Yep, and remember that this also means that a nonmultiplexed tape
will be slower (!) than one with a "suitable" multiplexfactor at the recovery
as you avoid "shoeshining" due the the client's inability to accept the
data from the tape.

Best
Dag

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