On Tuesday 10 June 2003 13:36, Ted Cabeen wrote: >If you're using the disk output driver to run backups to a large > disk array, is there any reason to use a holding disk?
2 reasons. 1: Useing the holding disk allows amanda to exploit parallel-ization (is that a word ? :) between the clients, speeding it up considerably. Without it, it can only handle one file at a time, or at least thats what I've been told on more than 1 occasion. 2: Useing the holding disk allows for an automatic defrag when the holding disk file is completed, it will be moved to the array in one swell foop. The holding disk file is then deleted, so any fragmentation is wiped out again by the time the run is done. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
