Emery Guevremont wrote: > I was wondering if someone could give a quick run down of the > advantages/disadvantages of spooling the data to disk before writing > it to tape, and the advantages/disadvantages of NOT spooling. > > i.e. which is faster, which is more reliable... I have one small Bacula site where the backups are written to a raid3 device (software raid). It works, but the raid3 is pretty slow compared with a normal disc. I spool jobs on to another single disc and spool them to the raid which is quite a lot quicker with concurrent jobs I find.
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