If your tapes are multiplexed, and you don't allow bpduplicate to maintain
multiplexing, this can greatly increse duplication time as bpduplicate needs
to dempx the images.

Just one possiblity...

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA [mailto:Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT 
> CA]
> Sent: January 9, 2002 11:01
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate taking 14 hours?
> 
> 
> I'm wondering if someone has run into this before. I'm trying 
> to duplicate 
> some year end tapes. I have a library with 2 mammoth tape 
> drives. I'd like 
> to think that a tape copy would take 2 hours, but this one took 14!
> 
> I'm running Solaris 8 with progress databases.
> 
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Karl-Frédéric Rössing
> Technical Analyst
> Federated Insurance Companies of Canada
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