Thanks for all the feedback.  It looks like I either need to switch software or wait for veritas to implement DAR.   A quick look shows that almost every other NDMP player already has it.  

I have 300gb volumes and several hundred users on each volume.... it takes many hours to find a 500k word document :-( .  Snapshots reduce the requirement to go to tape to a minimum but I've had to do it a couple of times over the last week or two.  

Thanks again,
Don



Don HICKEY/CA/ALCATEL@ALCATEL
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I find restoring from a tape extraordinarly slowwwww.  I have home directories on a clustered pair of F840 running 6.1.1r2.  I have several volumes at about 300gb usable.  When I need to restore a file from a users directory it can take up to 6+ hours (DLT 8000).   It appears most of the time is taken searching for the files...  is there anything you can suggest (including any white papers) to speed up this process?


thanks again


Don