Re: 77 hour backup of 850gb?

Subject:	Re: 77 hour backup of 850gb?
From:	Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu AT fedasil DOT be>
To:	Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Jul 2006 09:34:24 +0200

Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> a écrit sur 30/06/2006 15:47:24 : > > Sorry for asking but, why do you say backuping directly to tape is slow? > > > > I guess he's doing local backups (ie: The 700GB are not sent over the > > network every full backups). > > > > In this configuration what would be the benefit of having an holding disk? > > > > See my note about his writing 80000 tiny tape files. >
This is correctly handled by Amanda when the "holdingdisk no" variable is set:

Here's an extract from one of my amanda report:

taper: tape daily-backup04 kb 181855648 fm 23 [OK]

(with 23 DLE)

Regards,

Cyrille

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