I seem to remember it reading all the way to the end of the tape Neil, but I may be wrong. Veritas Netbackup seems to do this too.

Simon

-----Original Message----- From: neil lehrer [mailto:nlehrer@ibb.gov] Sent: Friday April 2001 22:09 To: toasters Cc: John Ederma; Curt Huyser Subject: ndmp restore process

hi,

we got legato to do a backup and now we are trying a restore. i deleted a directory from the filer and selected it for restore.

we are ontap 5.36r2, so no direct access restore.

watching the filer from an nt machine, we immediately saw the file names come back, with 0 bytes and no attributes. much later the file sizes came back and the attributes, but legato keeps reading the tape and every 5 minutes we see the "we have read so many bytes" messages.

i would think once the files are back the restore would complete, will it go to the end of the tape?

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