On Tuesday 10 June 2003 14:03, 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"?

More than the server itself if you really want to get picky.

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