16 Feb
2000
16 Feb
'00
6:55 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Jay Orr wrote:
I will grant that the Veritas solution of interleaving streams does sound well thought out and probably more efficient, but from an admin's perspective, you have to figure some day the worst will happen.
Multiplexing data streams to tape always felt like a bad idea to me, although I agree that it is probably the only feasible way to keep a tape drive streaming if you have slow data sources. It's just one more thing that could go wrong when you most need your data. I think NetBackup has a cloning feature that "de-multiplexes" the streams back into contiguous chunks though.
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"