Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

Hi, John,

on Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 at 20:16 you wrote to amanda-users:

JY> Folks,

JY>    If you are using vtapes on a RAID for your backup
JY> media, is there any point to also using a holding disk?
JY> I can easily understand the use of a holding disk if
JY> you are using real tapes but am not sure what it buys
JY> you if you are using vtapes.  Any comments?

As already mentioned in the HOWTO the main benefit of using a
holdingdisk is increasing parallelity. So it also makes good sense to
use it with vtapes also.

And if you want to use the taperalgo to fill the (v)tape to 100%
e.g. to burn a CD/DVD.


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