On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:34:52 -0500 Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Charles, do you find the use of a holding disk to be a major drawback? No, and I'm sorry if I gave that impression. > The time to backup my small network is about 2 hours but the dump time > is almost 3x the wall clock time. Yet the total time for "taping", > i.e. holding disk -> vtapes is only 16 minutes. In my environment > there is little need for multiple vdrives despite its sequential > nature. Hmm, I see a similar ratio: 1:18 to dump, :01 (!) to tape. (Assuming I am reading the report correctly.) So, yeah, I doubt I would benefit much from another vtape. Thanks for bring that up. This with Amanda 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 on a dual core AMD 64 and two SATA disks, with data and holding on one, and the vtapes on the other. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
