Posted Tuesday 8th July 2008 00:48 GMT

Anonymous Coward

Re: "Restores can take for ever if the data is scattered across multiple tapes as in any libtrary"

Yes. If your backups are configured stupidly they can take a long time to restore. Don't configure them that way if it is a problem for you.

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