Hi guys,
 
Backuping on a qtree level gives one very important advantage in case of disaster recovery:
 
      You can restore the qtrees on the failed volume in ORDER of importance to the organization.
 
E.g. restore the mail qtree first and the library archives last.
 
 
    Regards,
        Eli
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Clarke, John L. (CIS)
To: 'toasters@mathworks.com'
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:38 PM
Subject: RE: Optimal volume size

a) Yes, we do backup with finer granularity.  However, if a RAID group fails, I have to restore the whole thing, so fine granularity does not help much :-(

b) Yes, I am thinking about switching to a 10 disk RAID group, with 2 per volume.  That makes for 3 shelves, 2 parity disks, and one hot spare.

c) We have a Gigabit network connection, so the 7MB/sec does seem slow.