Darren Dunhame wrote


> 
> 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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I have a concern that if I don't, that then I'll have contention for the same 
source tape for several clone processes.  My main objective is to utilize all 
of the available physical drives for cloning in order to minimize the overall 
clone time.  If I organize the clone processes to do all the reading from a 
particular virtual drive at once, I'm hoping the physical drives will be used 
more efficiently.  My concerns may very well turn out to be moot though.

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