Re: 77 hour backup of 850gb?

[Cyrille Bollu]

Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit sur 30/06/2006 15:47:24 :

> > Sorry for asking but, why do you say backuping directly to tape is slow?
> >
> > I guess he's doing local backups (ie: The 700GB are not sent over the
> > network every full backups).
> >
> > In this configuration what would be the benefit of having an holding disk?
> >
>
> See my note about his writing 80000 tiny tape files.
>

This is correctly handled by Amanda when the "holdingdisk no" variable is set:

Here's an extract from one of my amanda report:

 taper: tape daily-backup04 kb 181855648 fm 23 [OK]

(with 23 DLE)

Regards,

Cyrille