Performance limitation.

Doing your offload to tape is requiring the heads to seek which would
kill backup performance.

I'm very interested to hear more about Kathryn's 24 concurrant jobs to a
staging unit.
Everyone else seems to say 1 or max 2 jobs per!!!

Paul

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> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com
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> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: Fast backup to tape but slow 
> backup to disk on NBU
> 
> 
> Kathryn,
> 
> You said:
> 
> <<However, because I can't stage diskimages to tape while 
> active backups 
> are writing to the disks,>>
> 
> Is that a product limitation, or due to some practical 
> reality?  Is it an 
> easy script...presumably you need a quiet point to run the script?
> 
> William D L Brown
> 
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