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Re: Is my tape drive "shoe shinning" ?

2006-03-15 14:42:11
Subject: Re: Is my tape drive "shoe shinning" ?
From: "Guy Dallaire" <clepeterd AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Joshua Baker-LePain" <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:38:19 -0500
2006/3/15, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>:
>
> Yes, they will compete.  taper writes whenever it has complete images to
> write -- parallelism is one of the benefits of the holding disk.  That's
> why, with faster tape drives, a holding RAID becomes necessary.
>

Would software RAID be sufficient ? I need stripping I presume ? Al I
have is a standard PC as a server. I don't want to end up with an
expensive tape server, we switched to amanda basically to REDUCE
costs...


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