On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:03:37AM -0700, Ted Cabeen wrote: > Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 10:36am, 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? > >> > > If you have lots of clients *and* you have the disk space, yes, as it will > > increase amanda's efficiency (through parallelism). > > Ahh. So without a holding disk, amanda will only dump one filesystem > at a time. Got it. Thanks. > > How many clients is "lots"?
*One* client can be "lots", if it has >1 large DLE, and has the CPU/disk/network resources to run >1 dump simultaneously without getting in it's own way. Given sufficient holdingdisk, you use maxdumps and spindle numbers to control the behavior. -- Jay Lessert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accelerant Networks Inc. (voice)1.503.439.3461 Beaverton OR, USA (fax)1.503.466.9472
