Wow,

Great question.  I am interested in this as well. Our robots go widely 
un-utilized during the day, and then get maxed out at night during the backup 
window. We just don't have the bandwidth to finish everything during that 
relatively small backup window. Any increase in performance makes a HUGE 
difference for our site.

- Paul

>>> Richard Hellier <rlh AT lsil DOT com> 09/15/03 09:34AM >>>
Folks,
        In various recent threads, some people have mentioned using
"backup to disk" (and then (e.g.) dup'ing to tape) as a way of
accelerating backups, getting reduced backup windows etc.

        If you are doing this, could I ask you, please, to let me know
some details of what sort of equipment you're using, any gotchas with
this
approach?


        I'm asking because our current 1.8 Tbyte data volume looks set to 
grow to 5-6 Tbyte and I don't think our current approach (ATL P3000 +
5 DLT drives) will scale to that sort of data volume.



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