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Subject: Re: appliance and cloud backup
From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:26:21 -0500
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That is very true but also don't forget that you can compress the stuff you are saving to those images as well so the benefit could be reduced I/O from that as well.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 3/3/2014 7:13 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Yeah, I never thought about this
<snip>
virtual optical is much more efficient because it is one object to save,
but has thousands of images in it, versus saving thousands of individual
images.
</snip>

Rob Berendt

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