On 15 Nov 2006 at 14:49, David W Borhani wrote: > Hi, I am considering using bacula for my laboratory data backups. A few > questions on whether it will work with my hardware, and regarding a few > features: > > 1.Will my hardware work w/ bacula? > Tape Drive Cybernetics CY-8102 AIT2 8 mm tape drive, 50/150 > GB, *** iSCSI *** > System Linux Redhat EL4, 2.6.xxxx kernel
I have no idea. :) > 2. How fast can bacula find a file on a tape to restore (i.e., does it > fast-forward to the right spot on the tape, or does it "read" through at > the regular [slow] read/write speed)? Can it restore a file from the end > of the tape in a few minutes, instead of hours? Bacula can fast-forward, if your OS/Tape drive allow it. Adjust your bacula-dir.conf file during the tape testing stage to get this behaviour. > > 3. How are files written onto tape? Like (multiple) tar files, w/ > filemarks. Or some other sort of format? In other words, can a > bacula-written tape be recovered w/ tar (or some other standard, simple > Linux utility) if needed? Yes to the last question. See bls and bextract. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
