This morning, the disk drive that holds my vtapes dies on me. I was
able to recover. My notes are at
http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/archives/2010/06/14/offsite_backups_arent_just_for_disaster_recovery/index.html
Conclusions:
* Be prepared.
* This is another reason (aside from performance and drive
longevity) to have your holding disk and virtual tapes on
different drives.
* Use symlinks for replaceable components.
* Virtual tapes allow you to use standard tools like ls and du on
your data.
* amanda is robust enough to have its storage medium go south in
the middle of a long backup and recover successfully.
* Back up your backups. (Paranoids live longer.)
* Do your backups assiduously.
* Offsite backups aren't just for disaster recovery.
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