George Sinclair wrote:

>The file was recovered at around 3 GB into the saveset. We do not clone
>tapes, so I can't try that, but I might re-try the recovery sometime
>when the network is less busy. Perhaps that played a major factor. Some
>users were complaining that the network was slow today. Also, I guess I
>could try recovering the entire saveset, canceling after a few minutes,
>just to see how fast it reads data when it's not hunting for a
>particular file.

If you had used cloned tapes, you should have gotten a faster restore since
cloned savesets are optimized for restore. Ordinary backup tapes
have "gaps" in them as seen from the host you are recovering.

greetings,

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