Callpilot restore from tape

[thattekguy]

I'm trying to restore a callpilot database from tape. I'm staring at the screen for 45 minutes now waiting to get the tape id from the restore screen.
Any idea how long this takes? The tape drive is flashing and the screen says list tape is running.? Thanks.

 

[janaya]

Can take a long time, but that seems a little long. Did it finally finish?

 

[KCFLHRC]

It does take a while, it scans the whole tape for additional backups.

 

[tball1]

If the external tape drive is old slr5 it will take for ever to read or write to tape it only write at kb speed.

 

[thattekguy]

Thanks guys, it was a bad tape, different tape took them 15 minutes to get the ID.

 

[bdmcdonald99]

Yup, that will happen with tapes. Once the system is restored, setup network backups to another server or PC. Much faster and easy to restore from if required.

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