On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:03:37AM -0700, Ted Cabeen wrote:
> 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"?

*One* client can be "lots", if it has >1 large DLE, and has the
CPU/disk/network resources to run >1 dump simultaneously without
getting in it's own way.

Given sufficient holdingdisk, you use maxdumps and spindle numbers to
control the behavior.

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