Approx. restore time estimate

[Kurt Buff]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 16:36, jaymax <jaymax36 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks!
>
> That might explain. Is there an alternate process you would recommend with
> at least equal reliability.
> BTW I should have mentioned that I was restoring from a disk file rather
> than from a tape
>
> Thanks again.

IME, restoring from disk or tape makes little difference, if you're
doing a full restore, and once the restore process is up and running.

The bigger bottleneck is the write speed of the disk(s) you're
restoring to - it's always slower to write than to read, often by a
very large margin.

Kurt