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[Veritas-bu] My restore is faster than my backup. Is itpossible?

2004-03-02 23:13:06
Subject: [Veritas-bu] My restore is faster than my backup. Is itpossible?
From: michael AT mlbarrow DOT com (Michael L. Barrow)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:13:06 -0800 (PST)
<quote who="Jon Bousselot">
> millions of files and hundreds of gigabytes.  While watching the logs, I
> saw it request a tape to be positioned to a specific file instead of
> scanning the tape sequentially and searching for the few files you need
> restored.

That's what the fragmentation setting does. It breaks the images up into
smaller pieces so that it can position to the right file on the tape to
retrieve your info.

-- 
Michael Barrow
michael AT mlbarrow DOT com

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