Hello ADSMers,

Last week I had the misfortune of doing our very first DR exercise which
involved recovering our ADSM server, v2.1.0.9 on AIX 4.1.4 and then using
ADSM to recover an AIX 4.1.4 node. The ADSM server recovery part went
pretty much as planned and rather smoothly. The biggest stumbling block we
ran into was the amount of time it took to restore data from the 'offsite'
3590 tape. For example, to restore a file system with 10,933 files and a
total of 732 MBs, took over 3.5 hours. Question: Is this the kind of
performance one should expect from the 3590s? I would appreciate hearing
from anybody with experience restoring from 3590 tapes.

Thanks in advance.

Have a nice day or whatever's left of it.

David Ong
National Semiconductor Corp.