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Date:      27 May 2000 23:09:45 +0200
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: restore time
Message-ID:  <8gpdip$1sr2$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005271236170.10949-100000@mail.telestream.com>

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<keith@mail.telestream.com> wrote:

> Why is it when I restore from tape, the tape seems to take forever to
> get the file off. Example

Where on the tape is the file in question located?

restore needs to read all of the backup archive up to that file
from the tape. Tapes tend to run for something like one or two
hours from end to end (larger capacity tapes are also faster so
this time stays rather constant).

> For a simple little file it will take more then an hour.

Not unreasonable.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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