If your logs are spread out on multiple tapes, I would concider 
implementing collocation to have as much data as possible from the node on 
the same tape.

Also,  normally, you dont do log backups to minize the amount of data per 
day, but to be able to do PIT restores. Therefore, I normally run full 
backups at night, and then hourly logs every hour. This way, I have one 
full backup and 23 transaction logs, stored on the same tape. In this 
case, I dont have to do multiple mounts.

Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman
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Mark Stapleton <stapleto AT BERBEE DOT COM>
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On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 06:12, Del Hoobler wrote:
> I am not sure I understand how your solution
> of backing up the log less often will help.
> The same amount of data will need to be backed up
> whether you queue them up or not.

Think about it, Del. It's not the amount of data that I was trying to
work around; it's the number of restores I was trying to reduce.

If you're backing up Domino logs thrice a day, instead of 24 times a
day, you have 1/8th the number of tape mounts, spin-forwards, restores,
log replays, rewinds, and dismounts. Since log restores are a
single-threaded process, and if each log restore requires 4 minutes
(which is pretty conservative), and you're restoring 5 days' worth of
logs, my scheme would require an hour for log restoration, versus 8
hours if you're backing them up every hour.

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