* Patrick M. Hausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:11:36AM +0100)
> What options do I have for higher capacity drives?
> Amanda still requires the largest dump to fit on a single tape.
> With filesystems routinely approaching a couple of hundreds of gigs
> these days there seems to be a huge gap ...
> I found IBM Ultrium technology. Has someone used these successfully?
Yup.
> OTOH they are 100 GB uncompressed - not a _real_ order of magnitude.
No,
amanda with compressuion should get you to 200G depending on the type of
data)
> What _do_ multi-terabyte datacenters use for backup, anyway?
Different backup software that allows dumps to span multiple tapes, in
combination with stackers or taperobots.
Work on multitapebackup is (apparently) underway for Amanda NG
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