On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:50:30 -0500 (CDT), John Harvey wrote:
>In fact this is a good idea, especially if you use 8MM tape, because it
>takes forever for ADSM to scan to the end of the tape in order to append
>new data. I do nightly backups and use a mountretension of 9999.

Thanks for the tip. I currently only have one DLT tape, but I am
requesting a second one. Also after ADSM is on production I will get
two 8mms we are using now for our current backup.

What has been your experience with restores from tape? Does it tape a
long time to find the files on tape? I am trying to keep as much as
possible on disk, but since I am doing the least important servers
now as a learning process I don't want to allocate too much HD space
to those servers. We are leaving backing up our most important
servers with ADSM after we are more familiar with the software.