On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:27:39 -0700 Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote:
> It might; see below. Let's see.. > It is my experience that once you get the configuration files set > up, everything is very stable. That's good. > Amanda does not address bare metal recovery. I, however, do. > http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html. Nice article. > The quantum unit of backup in Amanda is the Disk List entry (DLE). A > DLE may cover more than one partition or a portion of a partition. You > can use exclusions to further refine and nest DLEs. That's clear. > One thing that concerns me with appending is that if the tape or the > tape drive goes bad during the append operation, you run the risk of > clobbering no only the appended material but also the previous > material. Having seen this happen, I prefer to avoid it. Tape space is > much cheaper than your data. I see... > Also, with virtual tapes (vtapes in Amandaese), the question is > meaningless. It is the total space available in the partition that is > critical, not the "available space" on each vtape. So, I can create as many vtapes as I like and then dump those to the tape and they can span many tapes if required? > One of these days your tape drive is going to wear out. You may > find it expedient to replace it with disk drives loaded with > vtapes. Well, my 'multimedia' archive is meant to be archived and here I assume tapes, not on the movable hard disks. > For me, the lack of vtapes in Bacula would be a show stopper. Thank you for your input...I'm going to take a closer look at vtapes in wiki. Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: CDBF17CA
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