On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:05:05PM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I would like a confirmation:
> 
> I'm using amanda to backup only local (SCSI) hard drives (about 1TB). 
> 
> In such a configuration are there any benefits from using a holding disk?
> 
> I hope the answer is as easy as the question but :-/

parallelism of multiple DLE's dumping at same time.

more consistant feeding of tape drive from a "single" disk file
rather than at dump program rate.

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