Robert, Thank you for your input. We currently do full volume weekly backups and us that as our primary recovery point. We stack 15 volumes per tape and wind up with around 60 restores to run at DR. I'm going to push the number up toward 20 to reduce tape counts, which yields a 25% reduction in the long run. Our last DR we recovered all our DASD in about 5 hours, which isn't too bad. We are looking at higher speed channels and DASD so our backup time may reduce as well. Our DR manager would like to see us get to nightly full backups, but that is an awfully tight window even with no problmes at all. We'll be talking to IDP next week for some questions from here.
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