Tom, If you are not doing a full restore, a lot of the tape read you see is just data being passed over until the tape comes to data that has been requested. A good example of this would be the spurt you see here:
19% 0 677 0 138 139 268 0 8007 0 27 24% 0 732 0 148 139 236 992 8193 0 27 30% 0 760 0 178 651 996 3715 8847 0 27 20% 0 767 0 150 167 212 0 7870 0 27
As the tape comes to data that needs to be restored, the data gets written to tape, then the tape moves on and the there is no more data to be written from this portion of the tape. Of course, if this is a full restore, then this makes no sense whatsoever.
Geoff Hardin Dallas Semiconductor MIS UNIX geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com