I hope this isn't a silly question...
I have jobs that back straight up to tape, and they have media multiplexing on in their schedule (set to 4). I was told this was done this way for time reasons--and I remember in the past year trying to turn that down to 1 and having the backup take forever.
A step backward--the reason they were sent straight to tape is because they were taking too long going straight to disk (again, at least that's what I was told).
If I set up an SLP that takes that tape backup and duplicates it to a second tape, will the second tape also be multiplexed? Would there be some way to have that second copy in a single stream?
The reason I ask is because restoring this multiplexed backup can take around 24 hours, which is excruciating... and I'm trying to lessen that pain.
Thanks in advance...