Two thought on your comments.

First: If restores are taking a long time due to the amount of data being
restored, you could look at HSM. If your target client is a Windows 2000
machine look at OTG DiskXtender.  These products will move files, based on
criteria such as age, size, and/or file type, to tape and replace them with
a very small tag on disk. When you recover your client only the tags are
restored. This provides significant performance to recovery.

 Second: With the size of today's disks, recovery using tape is simply a
task that requires time. An option is to use remote disk storage. Having a
real time or almost real time set of remote disks makes recovery of even the
largest sites a few hour task.


Lee Fletcher
Network Project Integrator
Ameren Callaway Plant
573-676-4106
ldfletcher AT cal.ameren DOT com