Amanda-Users

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 13:45:45
Subject: Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Ted Cabeen <secabeen AT pobox DOT com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:42:30 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 10:36am, Ted Cabeen wrote

> If you're using the disk output driver to run backups to a large disk
> array, is there any reason to use a holding disk?
> 
If you have lots of clients *and* you have the disk space, yes, as it will 
increase amanda's efficiency (through parallelism).

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University