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Loading media (tape)

BahBah
Level 3

‎08-03-2009 06:14 AM

Hello

Is it normal for Backup Exec 12.5 to take 15mins "Loading media" whilst I do a test restore of 10 files that total < 1MB ? and then take 25mins fully to do the restore ?

We backup 200Gb data to our tapes.

What is it doing during this process ? Is it just establishing where the start of the tape is ? or is it finding the place where the data is stored ?

We're using an LTO4 drive.

Thank you
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BahBah
Level 3

‎08-03-2009 06:18 AM

I should add that these files reside in different directories. I was doing a test restore of just normal data and that my initial estimation of 10 files < 1MB was wrong, it was 10 files < 10MB.
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BahBah
Level 3

‎08-03-2009 06:19 AM

Restored 13 files in 13 directories.
Processed 7,586,479 bytes in 8 minutes and 58 seconds.
Throughput rate: 0.807 MB/min

However the entire job took 23mins.

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RahulG
Level 6
Employee

‎08-03-2009 07:26 AM

The time which you mentioned
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Restored 13 files in 13 directories.
Processed 7,586,479 bytes in 8 minutes and 58 seconds.
Throughput rate: 0.807 MB/min
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it after the media is loaded . The time it took for loading media is nto included
Try updating the drivers for the tape drive with the latest Symantec drivers
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