The HP CE will be the first one to admit that this utility is very slow.  The
last and only time that we used it required 2 hours to copy a 2GB disk to tape
and 2 more hours to copy it back.  Whether its use is warranted strictly depends
on the amount of disk space on your system, the number of tape drives available,
and if you can perform your reload in parallel.

This past Sunday we replaced 2 4GB drives and the CE estimated that it would
take 8 hours using that utility.  We took the 'reload' method and were done in
3.25 hours (~70GB using 4 DDS2 tape drives in parallel).

Regards
Paul H. Christidis

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Subject:    Re: Reload sanity check
Author: [log in to unmask]
Date:       10/20/99 9:34 AM

If your just having a single drive replaced (and it's not ldev 1) then you
don't need to do a reload. You HP CE should have a program they can load
either from the CD Rom or from the tapedrive that will copy the contents of
one drive to tape. They can then replace the drive and copy the tape back
onto the disk. Then you restart your system. I've had to have this done
several times and it works fine, and is much MUCH faster than doing a
reload.

John Krussel
Systems Manager
Nordstrom.com
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