I guess it depends on how much data you have. I had a 4 gig disk replaced
and it took 1.5 hours to get the data to tape and about 2 to put it back.
With over 250gig worth of data I figure it would have been over 10 hours to
reload with two DDS3 drives. YMMV

John

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> Subject:      Re[2]: Reload sanity check
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>
> 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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