On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:16:38PM -0400, John Young wrote: > Folks, > > If you are using vtapes on a RAID for your backup > media, is there any point to also using a holding disk? > I can easily understand the use of a holding disk if > you are using real tapes but am not sure what it buys > you if you are using vtapes. Any comments?
Parallelism. With no holding disk, dumps are done in serial to the vtape, just as they would be for a real tape.
