* Phil Rand <philrand AT gmail DOT com> [2006-03-23 11:19]:
> I'm curious:  Why do people use different volume pools?  We have one pool
> for Exchange backups, and three others to go with our Iron Mountain weekly
> rotations, but I'm not sure what that's buying us.  For tracking Iron
> Mountain boxes, we use volume groups, so the three pools for that are
> redundant.  It's nice to be able to easily break out the Exchange tapes, but
> there are other ways of getting that information.  So I don't think the case
> for separate volume pools is all that compelling for us.  How do other folks
> use them?

We back up 18 different customers on a shared 5.1 environment and use
pools to separate the client data.

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David Rock
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