We have discussed the same thing.  Unfortunately, that caused a lot more
data to be stored, and increases our ADSM DB.  It is like trading one
problem for another.  I am setting up different copy storage pools to keep
all the files consolidated where a large number of restores take place.
Hope this helps....


Andrew P. Schauerte

I.T. Analyst
Information Technology
(505) 828-5383
(505) 828-5500 (fax)
Honeywell
Defense Avionics Systems

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> From:         Fluker, Tom R[SMTP:Tom.Fluker AT VIASYSTEMS DOT COM]
> Sent:         Tuesday, March 16, 1999 8:33 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      restore times
>
> It appears to me that one of the problems with restores taking so long is
> that the incremental nature of ADSM will, over time, spread the required
> files over many volumes in a tape storage pool.  Requiring mounts, and
> searches, of multiple tapes requires a lot of time.
>
> Has anybody tried, say once a month, performing selective backups for
> entire
> file systems in an effort to aggregate all the files required for a
> restore
> in reasonable proximity to each other?   Incremental backups would then
> get
> scattered but it may limit the number of tapes that would be required.
> Would this help the restore time problem?
>
> I'm considering such an idea and was wondering if anybody has had any
> similar experiences that may help.
>
> Tom Fluker
> Tom.Fluker AT viasystems DOT com
>