On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Francis Galiegue wrote:
> Is the holding disk still necessary? My guess is no, but then I may be 
> mistaken. The documentation is not clear on this point. It only says not to 
> put holding disks in the same place than vtapes... Which doesn't really 
> mean "you WILL still need a holding disk, but try and put it on another disk 
> for performance reasons".

A holding disk allows to run multiple dumps in parallel.
Without a holding disk, all dumps will run sequential.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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