On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Martin Apel wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Joi Ellis wrote:
>
>>
>> I amflush these to tapes to send to offsite storage.
>> I've already done two tapes from this batch, I have four
>> left to do.
>
>That's a nice idea, but I have more data to back up than fits on the
>holding disk, so I have to flush some dumps to tape in order to dump
>all filesystems completely.
>
>Martin
So? I was trying to point out that simply selecting the biggest
dump may not give you the best packing. Often, the few tapes contain
four or five smaller dumps and can obtain a 99.8% usage rate.
The total amount of data to be backed up has no effect, since you can
only flush what's on the holding disk.
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Joi Ellis
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