On 6/27/2011 3:40 PM, Dan Pritts wrote:
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> Multiple I/O streams can probably make better use of your I/O bandwidth than
> can a single serial one, unless you are running on low-end hardware like a
> USB drive.
>
One other point that I don't think has been mentioned yet is that if you
have con
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> What is your i/o subsystem? I have a striped array (raid 0) over two
> raid 6 arrays with 7 drives in each array, so effectively I have 10
> spindles. With this I can handle more i/o load than if I only had one
> drive.
I'm sure that John knows this, but for the benefit of the OP i'll note th
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 03:48:20PM -0500, Chris Baker wrote:
> I have been wondering about this for a while. Am I better off having
> backups run parallel or in series?
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> By running in series, I mean one backup runs at a time. When it finishes,
> another one starts.
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> By running parallel, I m
I just depends on any particular setup, and what the most limiting
factor is. Sound like for you it's bandwidth, but that may not always
be true, even for you, depending on how much your data changes from
backup to backup and things like that.
I would argue that if you have so few machines that y
