I'm going to be setting up an amanda server with vtapes spread over 4-6 disk drives. I expect several of the drives will be able to hold two or more dumpcycles worth of vtapes. What would you recommend for the distribution of the vtapes, each disk hold a single sequential group of tapes or stripe them in some way across the disks.
A simple for instance, 3 disks each holding 30 vtapes. Sequential: disk 1 tapes 1-30 disk 2 tapes 31-60 disk 3 tapes 61-90 Striped: disk 1 tapes 1-15 + 46-60 disk 2 tapes 16-30 + 61-75 disk 3 tapes 31-45 + 76-90 Any pros or cons about either approach with regard to data loss on a disk failure? Or other things too. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
