Hi all,

I'm trying to improve our backup time and am looking for a few opinions.

Can someone tell me of any potential pitfalls or problems when using the
MAXTAPEBUF & INTER (together or separately) options during a STORE command?

If they are used together, will backup time improve or will one limit the
other?

We're running MPE 6.0 PP1 and use TurboStore to DDS2 tape drives.  We have
three backup jobs running simultaneously, all of them finishing within 30
minutes of each other.  All of them store files from all disks, and roughly
the same amount of data.  This was originally done to try and get them to
finish at approximately the same time.  Our current STORE commands look
something like this:

:STORE @[log in to unmask],@[log in to unmask]  &
:;*DLYTAPE;COMPRESS=HIGH;DIRECTORY;SHOW=LONG;PROGRESS=5


The backups in question would only be restored to the same system or one
configured alike.

All input appreciated,
Scott Root

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