EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
04/01/2008 12:26:08 PM:

> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Can you run scanner on multiple tapes in 
the...:
> 
> > Yeah, EMC had told me the same thing. Then again, I've had EMC tell me 
1
> > or 2 things that didn't work the way they said it woulod, so ...
> 
> :-|  Exactly the reason I never tried it to confirm.  I figured it was
> better to do it the slower way that I knew would work rather than try
> scanning saveset components in parallel only to find that it didn't work
> and I needed to go the slower route anyway.

I've found that this does work .. I did a "scanner -i -S ssid#" on 2 tapes 
simultaneously. There were 3 tapes in this saveset, but I left tape#2 to 
ask for tape #3 when it finished with tape #2. When tape #1 ended, and 
asked for tape #2, I just broke the scanning (CTRL ^C).

I then was able to do a restore - 1 file, 180M in size, from this 280G 
saveset.

So you can run "scanner -i" in parallel, apparently.

(of course, with my luck, the file came from tape #1, which would 
invalidate the test, I think :-))

Just thought I'd share

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