You generally do not use holding disks when backing up to disks.

tk

FM wrote:

Hello,

Do I need a holdingdisk when I using hard drive backup ?

I have a lots of iowait because of the copy from holding disk to virtual
tape even if the holding disk is on internal SCSI drives and tapes are
on an extrenal SCSI array (using sata drives)


thanks !

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Ram "TK" Krishnamurthy

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