-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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
Normally, if a drive works in Linux (as SCSI drive) it also works with Bacula. See the tape testing section in the manual ( http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#_ChapterStart27 ) if you want to make sure. Maybe somebody else on the list has already tried it with an iSCSI drive? > 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? If the drive supports it, Bacula puts regular filemarks onto the tape, allowing it to fast forward to the 'chunk' that contains the file. > 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? No. Bacula does not use tar, it has its own data format. You can create a rescue CD allowing you to perform bare-metal restores of a crashed "director" (with that you'll be able to restore the rest). Bacula also has tools to rebuild the catalog data from the tapes (bscan) and restore data (bextract). Hope that's helpful and that I got everything together correctly. Greetings, Michel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 iD8DBQFFW3TT2Vs+MkscAyURAk+rAKD2hIEJ1J7CUkfGMp7wNQwH44hS4QCgiri+ rydAkP91aBWoh7UcoF+U2lI= =rKrF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
