I did exactly that, and then flushed it a couple of times when I got the tape drive replaced.
However, I was only a week or so running that way, not a month.
For my setup, I have an LTO6 tape library, and a Supermicro server running Ubuntu 14.04. I have two
1TB enterprise SSDs for holding disk. During the days that my tape drive failed, I set up extra disk
space that was available for a few more holding disks totaling something like 6TB more space. For a
couple of days, I was running incrementals only. That is backing up 4 servers with a total of
something like 20TB of actual data (as opposed to capacity) divided up into just over 100 DLEs.
On 11/2/16 4:31 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote:
For a temporary setup, until I get a new computer to attach to my tape drive ….
(perhaps a month)
is there any reason I can’t just have a LOT of spool space(s), and let data
accumulate there?
The alternative is creating virtual-tapes on those same disks. But that seems
like more work than just leaving the data in the spool area. Is this a bad
idea?
Deb Baddorf
Fermilab
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