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>
> >So on any RESTORE you will need at minimum as much free permanent
> >disk space as the largest file on your backup tape consumes.
>
> Ouch! Is that really the case?

I just did a small test storing and restoring a larger file,
and watched the original file with LISTF's in a while loop
from another session window. It certainly looks like I remembered
it correctly, the 'old' file stayed until short before the RESTORE
finished.

I think the user always has the option of purging the files
before they run RESTORE (if they are that short in disk space),
but I quite like the fact that RESTORE 'plays it safe'.

> >If you
> >do parallel tape device RESTOREs (a <plug>TurboStore</plug> only
> >feature AFAIK) it may be much more.
>
> <plug> ORBiT's Backup+ </plug> also does parallel backups and restores,
> and I'm pretty sure the others do too.

:-)
I was only attempting to hint at the fact that parallel device RESTORE
is not a FOS feature.

Goetz (or really Götz, hoping the 'Umlaut' displays correctly)