On Tuesday 10 June 2003 13:36, 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?

2 reasons.

1: Useing the holding disk allows amanda to exploit parallel-ization
(is that a word ? :) between the clients, speeding it up considerably.
Without it, it can only handle one file at a time, or at least thats 
what I've been told on more than 1 occasion.

2: Useing the holding disk allows for an automatic defrag when the 
holding disk file is completed, it will be moved to the array in one 
swell foop.  The holding disk file is then deleted, so any 
fragmentation is wiped out again by the time the run is done.

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Cheers, Gene
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