Why is restore so slow?

Tue Feb 5 06:46:57 AEST 1991

In article <19023 at rpp386.cactus.org>,
jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) says:
> Futhermore, you will find little consolation from your boss who doesn't
> understand why 300 EDP employees are sitting on their hands while you
> restore that =one= file they use so frequently.

Your boss will be even _more_ annoyed with you when he discovers
that you _cannot_ restore that file because you (or your OS vendor)
mucked around with dump/restore in order to "improve performance",
successfully trading reliability for some piddling increase in speed!
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