On May 4, 2005, at 11:27 AM, James Melin wrote:
ACtual problems are still well into the future here - I'm still theoretical.
I have a pair of 3490 tape drives that I could have in my configuration.... I would love to do more granular backups than DFDSS can provide.... I like the idea of backing up linux to datasets that are 'active0' meaning migrate immediately via NFS. I'm also open to directly accessing tape via management/backup process running natively on Linux, which it seems that Bacula could provide. Anything is likely to be an improvement over backing up boulders when I could be backing up pebbles instead.
The first thing works immediately, by doing file-based backup into an NFS-mounted directory which is really under the control of DFSHSM.
The second thing also works, by replacing mtx-changer with our tape- mounting interface, and letting your VM system handle the actual tape manipulation while allowing bacula to think that it is talking to a SCSI autochanger.
Adam
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