On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:11:51AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> In your situation, I would setup the config that backs up the server
> itself to not use the holding disk. On a local only config, it doesn't
> really buy you much speed, so why bother?
A holding disk still buys you parallelism. Sure, a local full
backup can provide bytes faster than a typical tape drive can
consume them. But on an incremental, dump or (especially) gtar
can spend a lot of time searching for the next file to back up.
During that time, bytes aren't being copied; in a direct-to-tape
dump, your tape drive sits idle; with a holding disk, the drive
could have been writing a different DLE.
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