=> On Wed, 1 May 2002 04:20:13 -0400, "Seay, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> It can be used for servers, but that was not the backupsets' original > mission in life. I've got one other use for backupsets: for the big restores. We've got a ~400 GB server (mail store for central IMAP service at UF) that we're setting up to have many virtualmountpoints, each of which will eventually hold ~10GB. (actually ~100GB filesystems) In this situation, tape "stutter" and re-seek can be a major constituent of the restore time. To minimize this, we plan: have a FILE device class available with space ~ 40G + (or know where we'd get one if the hammer dropped) 2) GEN BACKUPSET NODENAME mail01 devc=filefoo GEN BACKUPSET NODENAME mail02 devc=filefoo [...] as many generates running as you have tape drives. as soon as one of these is complete, begin a restore of it, and begin generating the backupset for the next one. The tape is
