John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:37 AM, James Cort <james.cort AT u4eatech DOT com> 
> wrote:

>> The problem I did find is that if you're interleaving two backups on
>> tape without spooling, eg:
>>
>> Server A: Slow disk, 50GB
>> Server B: Fast disk, 200GB
>>
>> ... you wind up slowing down the backup for server B quite dramatically
>> because it spends a lot of time waiting for the rather slow backup of
>> server A.  You may actually see a shorter backup window by selectively
>> disabling concurrency on the jobs.
>>
> 
> How about setting a maximum spool size of 5GB or so? I do that and it
> works great for me with my 2 drive lto2 changer.

I didn't try that because the server I was using as storage daemon and
director was significantly slower than the throughput that LTO3 is
capable of - so I just upgraded the server.

Worth a go, though.

-- 
James Cort

IT Manager
U4EA Technologies Ltd.

-- 
U4EA Technologies
http://www.u4eatech.com


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