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Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 14:07:41
Subject: Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver
From: Ted Cabeen <ted AT impulse DOT net>
To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:03:37 -0700 
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu> writes:

> 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).

Ahh.  So without a holding disk, amanda will only dump one filesystem
at a time.  Got it.  Thanks.

How many clients is "lots"?

-- 
Ted Cabeen
Systems/Network Administrator
Impulse Internet Services
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