On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > In theory, a 600 GB tape with a 200 GB spool file would be filled in > three chunks. As the sizes never add up that well, and the actual tape > capacity is never that exact, you will find that it takes three or four > despooling turns which doesn't sound too bad for me. > > In general I'd recommend to make the spool are as big as possible. If > you can fit your complete backup set into the spool area, you'll also > minimize the time you use the network and load the clients, which might > be worth something, too.
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