Hi, I've noticed there's some talk about tape archiving. As mentioned below I'd love to help to improve archiving over multiple volumes using a tape autoloader. I bought Dell PV 124T autoloader and it works fine using tar, mt and mtx. I've been looking into BackupPC scripts to add --multi-volume option to the script with tar command. tar would usually stop and wait when a tape is full and wait for another one. At the moment I don't know how to capture when tar is waiting for another tape. Script would then change the tape and let tar continue. Would anyone have any ideas? Unfortunately I don't really know Perl and at the moment I can't afford time to learn it that well so any help would be appreciated. :-) Also, since most autoloaders now have barcode readers I'm looking into adding that info to the archive log. It's very easy to get it from output of mtx.
I'm aware that there are other tools for tape backup such as Amanda etc. I don't need tape backup just a good archive option as I use tapes to store only current snapshots of backups so Amanda for example would be too much. Igor Igor wrote: > Hi! > > I've installed BackupPC in the company I work for for over a year now > and it works great. It's used to backup Linux, Windows and Unix (Irix) > machines. I use LTO-2 tape drive for archiving once a week. As the > amount of data grows manually changing many tapes is not practical any > more. Only two things are really missing: backing up of ACL's and > extended attributes; managing tape archives. The former could be tackled > in a similar way as in rdiff-backup maybe but at the moment I'm more > interested in the latter. > > I'm about to buy a new tape autoloader and would like to find someone > literate in Perl and interested in implementing (multi)tape archives in > BackupPC. I'm planning to write shell scripts using mtx command set > which would manage the drive and the tape loader but I don't know how to > implement that in Perl and in BackupPC so I'd need help with it. Is > there anyone interested in it or maybe there is already something on the > same line that I missed? > > Thanks! > > Igor > > P.S. Also any recommendations on tape drives which would be best for > this job wouldn't hurt. I'm looking at these ones: > Quantum SuperLoader 3 - LTO-3, Tandberg StorageLoader 1U LTO3, HP 1/8 > Ultrium 920 G2 Tape Autoloader, Dell PV 124T Rack Base LTO3 2U Autoloader. > > --- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-devel mailing list BackupPC-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
