Jacob Ritorto wrote: > HI, This is only tangentially related to the forum topic, but no > others seem to be discussing flar, so here goes: I want to use flar > to do both speedy DR and regular backup for some T2000 machines. I > made a flar of the machine in its initial deployment state and wanted > to just do diff flars from then on, which would be small and easy to > store many on a tape. When I tried to do the diff flar, it was > unable to read the original flar (using the -A argument to > flarcreate). Turns out I have to have the image unbundled in its own > directory for flarcreate to use it to compare. This effectively > kills my simple plan. Any chance of getting flarcreate to be able to > read .flar files instead of full directory heirarchies? Any simple > workaround that you know of? I have no spare machines or disks to > devote to the cloning and lu methods mentioned in the docs, and > that's a big waste of space and time anyway.. >
Flash is a good option for replicated deployments (which is what it's been designed for), a fair option for disaster recovery, but probably not so good for backups. I'd suggest a real backup program that can do incremental backups for that purpose. You certainly have the option to log an RFE through service, but it's unlikely we'd work on it within the next year based on other priorities. Dave
