On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:18:35AM -0800, brerrabbit wrote:

> It's funny, I just started working on something very similar for our
> Windows Networker server myself.  It's not done yet, but I hope to
> further organize the savesets so that the VTL tapes to be cloned from
> are loaded a minimal number of times, a la "clone everything off this
> tape, then clone everything off that one" etc etc.

What is the advantage to loading a VTL tape a minimal number of times?
On (much older) devices I've worked with, that load time was very
short.  And demuxing a VTL is much easier than demuxing a physical tape.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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