holding disk too small?

2019-12-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Another naive question: Does the holdingdisk have to be bigger than the size of one tape? I know that it would be good, but what if not? I right now have ~2TB holding disk and "runtapes 2" with LTO6 tapetype. That is 2.4 TB per tape. So far it works but maybe not optimal. I consider recreati

RE: holding disk too small?

2019-12-03 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
Stefan, In order for the holding disk to be used it has to be bigger than the largest DLE. To get parallelism in dumping it has to be large enough to hold more than one DLE at a time, ideally I suppose the number of in parallel dumps, and then some more so that you can begin spooling to tape wh

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-03 Thread Olivier
"Stefan G. Weichinger" writes: > So far it works but maybe not optimal. I consider recreating that > holding disk array (currently RAID1 of 2 disks) as RAID0 .. Unless your backups are super critical, you may not need RAID 1 for holding disk. Also consider that holding dick puts a lot of mechani