> If you use a file-oriented approach, traversing the directories is very > slow, and the restore will be much worse as it tries to reconstruct the > hardlinks. An image copy will be much faster, but keep in mind that you > have to load it all back from the tape before being able to access any > of it. If your partition is 2TB or smaller it might be handier to image > to to an external or removable disk that you could access directly.
We'll give this a shot. Our "tape drive" is actually an HP d2d4112 system, which creates a virtual tape changer and and tape drive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
