[rescue] Re: how to utilize multiple tape drives in the same library/silo with Amanda...

[Steven Hill]

>   Mainly (exclusively?) due to crashes.
>
>   Say you have 500GB of data spread across five 100GB filesystems, and a
> filesystem gets corrupted.  You have another 500GB of data on ONE
> filesystem, and a filesystem gets corrupted.  That's math that even
> *I* can handle.

We have lots of filesystems approximately .5T in size. (vxfs and vxvm
controlled.) We also have a fair bit of data kicking around. Splitting
these up would be an operational nightmare.

S.

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Steven Hill
Systems Administrator

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