Thanks for your reply,

> How can 20Gb be spread over a lot of tapes?
A User profile is restored as an entity. It's spread over so
many tapes because some files in a profile change daily and some never do.
On the tapes the profile data is mixed with the rest of the drives data
(the user profiles are only 20GB out of 160GB).

Thomas Rupp

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Von: Otto Schakenbos [mailto:otto.schakenbos AT TELEFLEX DOT COM] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2003 17:22
An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Betreff: Re: Backup User profiles


How can 20Gb be spread over a lot of tapes? If your tapes are really
that small consider a hardware upgrade.
an option to consider is image backup (when you have bigger tapes) this
will not help you with single file restores but in case of total
disaster it will be time saver (and job maybe).
one scenario could be
do a image backup every week or so to tape
do normal inc to a disk-library.(device class disk) so  no long search
and mount times. (also not so secure maybe but thats why you have you
image backup on offsite tape)
Remember that (to my knowledge but not sure have to look it up)  you
can't get single files back from an image backup so you need both.

regards


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