Many thanks for taking the time to explain Nicolai!
I agree a single VMDK file will be faster than 4.5million 10KB .XML files :)
Lots of memory in the client and Netbackup master server, but never exceeds 9GB of 100GB RAM.
The project I am involved in is to restore ALL netbackup data to be ingested into our new backup product, our method is restore to a scratch location and it's then picked up by the other new backup app. The restores are slow hence my inquiry.
Are there any typical configuration tweaks I could make that would also help?
Many thanks