Hi Martin & rest!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> if AMANDA is something like a high end backup tool then it's
It is. Even higher that ARKEIRA AFAIK.
> Hint 1: Autoloading of modules may be a drawback in
> this scenario because ftape falls back to it's default
> everytime it's loaded again.
However, you can specify the defaults in /ect/conf.modules.
See man modprobe.
> Hint 2: High End backup software (designed to use SCSI tape
> drives) often do not offer a verify run because
> SCSI tape drives do Read-After-Write-Verification. Floppy
> tape drives do not have this feature.
Which does not help if the data that arrives at the tape drive
is already mangled ... there should always be a way to test
whether the data is up-to-date with the HD. IMHO.
-Wolfgang
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