Goetz writes:

>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?

>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.

As far as the disk space comment above, we do it differently - we do
purge the file in the process of doing the restore because "in the
old days" because of the cost of disk, it was possible that large
files couldn't be restored if enough disk space weren't available.
This more applied to databases where it was an "all or nothing"
proposition with ;DBRESTORE.

Thinking more to the 6.5 days, that may become the case again with
large files (but disk is becomming quite cheap and more dense).

Regards,


M.