Re: Speeding up restore times

PaulMmn wrote:
> Since you're deleting the old library, the system needs to allocate
> space all over again, so it will take some time.

I don't think that's happening, it reads a bit from the tape, processes it,
then reads more, etc.

> Since you don't know which objects they deleted over the week, maybe
> you could try a user exit (or parameter validation) program on the
> DLTOBJ command (well, the individual delete commands)-- log the
> object/library to a file.  When you receive the tapes, delete those
> objects using the log file, then restore the tapes over the existing
> libraries.

That's sure an interesting idea, but I don't think we'll get that involved.

Thanks.