Hi Michael! > Is there anyone using this device with FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x? I'm new to the > world of auto-loaders and am curious if FreeBSD's tar / dump utilities can > support it properly for backing up of 3tb of data from various partitions. > If so, are there any specifics that I should be aware of when using this > device? Any recommendations on using other software other than tar or dump > to do this that are available in the ports tree?
rsync and rsnapshot are alternatives - I particularly like the second one as it provides a kind of incremental backup (you can have several snapshots of the same file, what can be handy to retrieve an old version of a file after a deadly edit without having the sysadmin fiddle with tapes...) Regarding tar, make sure you don't save a huge file on an ext2fs file system. I did this mistake once on a machine that was shared between FreeBSD and Linux and I've lost a significant amount of data: ext2fs does not support files of more than 4GB (compressing the archive does not shift the threshold - data will be lost before this). UFS2 is the way to go: the inodes management is not quite as efficient from a disk usage point of view but for huge disks, it will bring you peace of mind, which is priceless. Hope it helps -- Olivier Gautherot [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"