1. Sounds like an awful lot of data. Might consider compression with tar -cvzf [filename] [directory]. Omit the file extension if you do this.
have plenty of drive space, and without compression, it's a lot easier to restore individual files.
2. Consider writeing your self a cron script that simply dumps the diretories into a file to ensure that they are all available.
not sure what you mean, this is just a script to mount a windows share and copy the files to a driver on the linux box. I only use the tape backup as a last resort.
This script work without any errors when run from the command line (only fails when run as a cron task)
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