Theoretical / procedural question -

Has anyone ever had to scan in, i.e., using "scanner", MANY (i.e., 
possibly hundreds) of old expired tapes? If so, is there any way to speed 
up that process?

We've used scanner more than once to read a tape or two as a mechanism to 
transfer data between (backup) servers and clients, but never a large 
number of tapes. It's been suggested to me by vendor support folks that 
it's unwise to run more than one scanner session on the same Networker 
database at the same time (could result in database corruption, according 
to them). All of these theoretical tapes are from the same Networker 
server / database / installation, spread over a period of time.

Or, given multiple servers I guess it might be possible to recreate one 
group of clients / pools on one, another on another, etc., as long as it 
was clearly known what tapes contain what clients, etc.

OR ... Is there any kind of service or vendor out there who does this?

Thanks for any advice or direction you can offer.

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