Jason Lixfeld wrote:
- Other folks dumping to a hard drive at night? Care to share any of your experiences/rationale?
Not with dump/restore. After using amanda and a tape drive for eons I'm now happy with a bacula solution to backup 2 freebsds and a windows machine. It does incrementals except on Saturday night when it alternates between a differential (sort of a mass incremental from the last full) and a full backup to a cheap IDE drive. Every Sunday I copy the IDE drive to a USB drive and take it offsite and bring back another one.
After restoring from scratch - power supply frying the entire RAID array on my desktop -STABLE machine - I think the advantages of dump are certainly there but for my apps, where I don't have any huge sparse files or a lot of hard links other than whatever gets installed with a fresh install (if anything) to worry about - they're outweighed by the convenience of bacula where I can go back to a point in time. YMMV...
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