Greetings,
We just got an OnStream ADR 50 tape drive. Installing it and geting it ready
should be a piece of cake (I am just waiting on the drive rails and have
everything else prepped)
Our situation is that we have a hardware RAID set up, with about 50 gigabytes
of available space. Should be a perfect match, in theory. What we are
wondering, is tools people use to backup. I am plowing through "Unix Backup and
Recovery" from O'Reilly and was wondering what specific tools people have used,
if not specific to the Onstream drive, but something of that magnitude (about
50 gigabytes of data).
We have one person that wants to basically up directories and place them on the
drive during the night... I seem to think that there may alreayd be a solution
that could help us out completely. I worry that with just tarring up the drives
they might be difficult to recover. I have looked into amanda, but the tape
drive defs that are included with it show no signs of any Onstream drives.
Anyone using amanda with the Onstream? BRU with the Onstream?
Total newbie question here, but lets say I tar up everything on the drive, and
copy it over to my tape drive. I have one huge tar file. My computer totally
dies. I am then able to reinstall my OS of choice (RedHat 6.1) onto the
machine. Can I then just untar the tar file back onto my machine (tar xvf
mybackup.tar) and get everything back to how it was the moment I backed up. Our
data isn't changing all that dynamically and up-to-the minute backup is not a
high priority.
Tips, advice, yelling appreciated
Thanks
Matt
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Matt Fuerst
Polyphasic, Inc.
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