From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 14:14:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6502837B8B6 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 14:14:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 12vnuJ-0002cG-01; Sat, 27 May 2000 23:14:07 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA62320 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 May 2000 23:09:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: restore time Date: 27 May 2000 23:09:45 +0200 Message-ID: <8gpdip$1sr2$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message