On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, der Mouse wrote:

> In a past life I was a sysadmin at a university site.  We had an alpha
> which was intended to be a backup server (its raison d'=EAtre was to run
> amanda, basically).  But performance was pitiful - and I mean _really_
> pitiful, the sort that leads to things like "yes I said kilo not mega".
>
> It could send and receive network data at full wire speed.  It could
> read and write the disk zippily.  But as soon as I tried to do both,
> performance plummeted.

Do you remember what kind of alpha this was?

I just reactivated an PWS 433au to do exactly this job - acting as an
amanda server in our institute and what you wrote sounds bad news to me ..

Best regards,

  Torsten

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