On Saturday 21 September 2002 02:24, Frank Smith wrote:
>--On Friday, September 20, 2002 21:19:43 -0400 Gene Heskett 
<gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net> wrote:
>> I'd think that rather than larger tapes, faster drives would be
>> higher on the list, if for no other reason than to get the
>> darned job done before the offices open in the morning.  Here,
>> it occasionally is still running when the 4am stuff comes due,
>> but this DDS2 I use is a slower drive, less than 400kb/second.
>> Obviously a busier machine would need a faster drive.  The
>> upside of the DDS2 is the price of the tapes, they are almost a
>> non-issue at less than 50 bucks a ten pack on ebay.
>
>Another option to a faster tape drive is more holding disk space.
>If your holding disk is as large as your backups (and your reserve
>is set appropriately) you can shorten your backup window to just
>the time your dumpers take, and even if it takes 10 or 15 hours
>to write it to tape it won't impact the clients.  Even if you
>don't have enough disk for the entire backup, whatever you can
>add to it will help (assuming your tape drive is the limiting
>factor.
>
>Frank

Holding disk I have, currently about 16 gigs. :-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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