On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:13:06AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> It all depends how long you want to wait to restore a file if you have 
> large backups that can span a tape completely.
> 
> With 1TB fragment size, assuming there was no compression and you needed 
> to restore a 10k file at the end of the tape, it would need to read the 
> entire thing to restore the file.

Since a tape can skip forward within a file (at least modern tapes can),
I don't think that's a problem.

I leave fragment size on all my STUs unset (to avoid screwing up NDMP
duplications) and I don't have to wait to read through long fragments
when doing single file restores.

-- 
Darren
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