On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jeremy Finn wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a standard backup policy configured to stream five mount points to
> one tape drive. This is working fine.
>
> When I do the restore, I only see one stream restoring at a time. Is it
> possible to restore the five streams of data from the multiplexed tape at
> the same time?
This is how it works by default, I backup 3 directories and I see files in 
all 3 of them being restored at the same time.  When you backup to you see 
5 simultaneous jobs writing to tape at the same time from the same client?

>
> Other backup softwarescan do this so I assume Netbackup can as well... if
> some could please point me in the right direction it would be much
> appreciated.
What does your policy look like?
What version of NetBackup?

Only an LTO-1 tape how fast are you feeding the drive?
What are you expecting?

The way it works by default if you backup 5 directories with 5 mpx when 
you restore it will happen the same way AS LONG AS when it backs up you 
see all 5 backing up at the same time.  (Also, I do not use any policies 
with the NEW_STREAM directive) so I do not know if that could be affecting 
it, what does your file list look like?

>
> My environment looks like this:
>
> Master: Solaris 10 on SPARC
> Media Server: HP-UX on PA-RISC
> Source Client: HP-UX on PA-RISC
> Target Client: HP-UX on PA-RISC
> Multistream = 5
> Multiplex = 5
> One LTO-1 tape drive
>
> Thank you in advance for any insights.
>
> Jeremy
>
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