This fixed it - backup time of my server down from 12 hours to 3 hours!!

Many thanks all.

Paul




                                                                                
                                                                
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> From: Paul Sobey [mailto:Paul.Sobey AT aleagroup DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday 23 January, 2002 22:53

...
> tape. When I looked at the server, I discovered that NetBackup was
> unloading and reloading the tape into the robot between databases. Is
this
> normal?

 Which patch level? Check http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/242919.htm,
this maybe your problem. Raising the mount timeout value could help too.

 Amicalement, fx.

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