Amanda-Users

Re: A virtual tape question

2006-02-05 12:46:28
Subject: Re: A virtual tape question
From: stan <stanb AT panix DOT com>
To: Ian Turner <ian AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:35:41 -0500
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:53:43AM -0500, Ian Turner wrote:
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 10:40 am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > AFAIK I recommended to use separate disks for vtapes and holdingdisk.
> 
> Why even use a holding disk at all with vtapes? It's not like you're going to 
> keep the hard disk streaming.


I'm thinking about doing backups to disk and tape. So I can use teh disk
copies for CD based archiving, and fast restore.

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