This machine is no longer in production, so 
backups (as opposed to 'restores') are not 
being performed any longer.  So I'm not sure
it can be 'tuned' in this case, as I'm only 
doing reads of write protected tapes.

BT
NNNN
Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Leslie [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] More VMS Fun: Reading A Tape Directory
> 
> 
>  Johnson, Tracy ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> : After getting a script written by a consultant,
> : I'm now able to get a directory listing of some
> : archived backup tapes on our new(old) DEC.
> :
> : However I find it odd that one has to read
> : through the whole tape to get the directory.
> :
> That's because each save-set is a sequential file, and there
> can be more than one of them on a tape. Or one save-set can
> span multiple tapes.
> 
> : That's a couple hours on a DLT IV, about
> : one hour on a DLT III.
> :
> VMS can be tuned so that Backup runs much faster. Try a google search
> of the comp.os.vms archives for:
> 
>   o backup sysgen
>   o backup process quotas
> 
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> --Jerry Leslie   (my opinions are strictly my own)
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