On Saturday 21 September 2002 02:24, Frank Smith wrote: >--On Friday, September 20, 2002 21:19:43 -0400 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd think that rather than larger tapes, faster drives would be >> higher on the list, if for no other reason than to get the >> darned job done before the offices open in the morning. Here, >> it occasionally is still running when the 4am stuff comes due, >> but this DDS2 I use is a slower drive, less than 400kb/second. >> Obviously a busier machine would need a faster drive. The >> upside of the DDS2 is the price of the tapes, they are almost a >> non-issue at less than 50 bucks a ten pack on ebay. > >Another option to a faster tape drive is more holding disk space. >If your holding disk is as large as your backups (and your reserve >is set appropriately) you can shorten your backup window to just >the time your dumpers take, and even if it takes 10 or 15 hours >to write it to tape it won't impact the clients. Even if you >don't have enough disk for the entire backup, whatever you can >add to it will help (assuming your tape drive is the limiting >factor. > >Frank
Holding disk I have, currently about 16 gigs. :-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.15% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
