Yes, one single pool or group cloned normally will take quite a while.  Your
rate (though one tape at time) is still quite good.

A parallel cloning script would definitely speed this up.

Short of that what I've done is seperate our envinronment/backups into
several groups and pools.  While one group runs the other can be cloning.
In this way I've gotten some parallelism.   You'll need a different backup
tape pool for each group if you want to do this reliably.

Also, in the interim, I found that adding  the mminfo sorting order -omo
helped my simple ssid clone script speed up a bit.  Thanks to Ed Skolnik
for this idea (under the thread "Faster Cloning").

Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare


On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:21:06 -0500, Ciolek, Ken <Ken.Ciolek AT AIG DOT COM> 
wrote:

>I was looking for feedback on how you do cloning. We have a rather large
>environment and takes us 4 days to complet cloning. We clone about 18TB. We
>only have one pool and clone all the FULL save sets via a home grown script.
>
>Ken Ciolek
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>AIG Technologies
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