Good to know you’ve done it before. It takes a looooong time for government to buy anything. A month is actually an awfully optimistic estimate, now that I think about it!
But I’m told this temporary node has 20+ 2TB disks, and yes I’ll just do one full and then incrementals. Probably of the user-data areas only, not the OS’s on all 9 or more clients. I’ll just keep adding more spool areas as the first setup gets full. My current backups of these clients (different software; now expired!) is taking 3-4 LTO4 tapes for a level 0 backup. Deb Baddorf > On Nov 2, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Chris Hoogendyk <[email protected]> wrote: > > I did exactly that, and then flushed it a couple of times when I got the tape > drive replaced. However, I was only a week or so running that way, not a > month. > > For my setup, I have an LTO6 tape library, and a Supermicro server running > Ubuntu 14.04. I have two 1TB enterprise SSDs for holding disk. During the > days that my tape drive failed, I set up extra disk space that was available > for a few more holding disks totaling something like 6TB more space. For a > couple of days, I was running incrementals only. That is backing up 4 servers > with a total of something like 20TB of actual data (as opposed to capacity) > divided up into just over 100 DLEs. > > > On 11/2/16 4:31 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >> For a temporary setup, until I get a new computer to attach to my tape >> drive …. >> (perhaps a month) >> is there any reason I can’t just have a LOT of spool space(s), and let data >> accumulate there? >> >> The alternative is creating virtual-tapes on those same disks. But that >> seems >> like more work than just leaving the data in the spool area. Is this a bad >> idea? >> >> Deb Baddorf >> Fermilab >> > > -- > --------------- > > Chris Hoogendyk > > - > O__ ---- Systems Administrator > c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments > (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center > ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst > > <[email protected]> > > --------------- > > Erdös 4 >
