Ok. I havent spend enough time in that area. But do you need to spool a complete tape? In order to avoid doing "evil" stuff to you tape drive, much less is sufficient. So you'd like to spool a comple
Hi, Well, Alan probably runs jobs spanning more than one tape. Also, he's running jobs concurrently. Now, if he wants to avoid interleaving of different jobs, he needs to spool complete jobs, and pro
I'm multiplexing anything up to 20 jobs at a time. To ensure that small incremental and diff jobs are dumped in one hit and to ensure that full backups are laid in as large chunks as possible, this i
Thanks for the elaborate reply. Just a few more querious questions. Are you having that many clients or is it actually larger volumes that have been split up in smaller filesets? Absolutely. Yes, I u
Mostly larger volumes broken into 1Tb filesets. There are about 150 desktop boxes being backed up but their load is minor. I hope you've benchmarked restore times. Between the sheer volume of data an