Paul

I'd have thought that there are ways to make the system use more than
one tape at a time. On 6.1.3 I was using a couple of disk devices and
had two staging processes, occasionally they would both run at the same
time, worked a treat. OK, so the disk devices (well, file devices
actually) were fairly small, but it still worked fine.

What about if you set up as many adv.disk devices as the number of tape
drives you want to use at one time. You could backup across the whole
set and have multiple staging processes to move from disk to tape.

Regards
Bob



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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Paul Steele
Sent: 27 October 2003 23:39
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] legato "staging" info


On 27 Oct 2003 at 18:19, Evan Gold wrote:

> I rebuilding my legato 7 server and was considering using disk 
> staging, has anyone used this? is it worth it?
>
> I backup about 2TB a week, how much space do i need for staging to 
> work? Is 100gb disk space too small?
>
> how much will this speed up my backups and clones?
>
> is this a substitute for buying more tape drives?

We looked into this as well and decided not to persue it at this time.
Apparently it's difficult to make the disk-to-tape step of the staging
process to use more than one tape drive...

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