On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:59:24AM -0800, Kris Boutilier wrote: > and efficiently handles hardlinks. However, unless you're already fully > committed tape may not be the optimal soloution. A better approach may > be to locally attach another stack of cheap 500Gb SATA drives, mirror
> do single file restores back on to the backuppc machine itself so, > without having a bare metal bootable recovery tape strategy such as with > HP-UX, is there really any significant value in using tape? Put another There are lots of folks who think tape is dead. I'm not yet entirely convinced, primarily because tape is a lot more durable than spinning disks. Your points are good ones, of course. to the original poster, if you do decide to only do disk to disk backups, make sure to remember that one of the things you're protecting against is user error, where the backup admin is the user. Make sure to protect yourself against the possibility that you will fubar the online disks. danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
