Yes, this is work for customers. Who knows, you might have the same
problem for your customers and we might all do better for the exchange ;)
My company has sold many servers with DAT5 tape drives (36GB native,
72GB in the best of all compression circumstances - so of course they
tout them as 72GB...). These drives are not as reliable and durable as
say DLT or LTO. Some of my customers also have NAS to which I may
connect (remember my mount presentation last Tuesday in which I did not
discuss CIFS). So what I'd like to script is a backup and verify to NAS
and then dump the NAS backup to tape and verify again given the
reliability issue.
Please know that in the years that Tilghman and I worked together, he
tried to show me some of these things. Did I write them down?
Nooooooo. My bad.
So I solicit thoughts on such an exercise. One obvious test that needs
to occur is to check the size of the NAS archive to make sure it'll fit
on the tape. The process also needs to be archive utility neutral as we
use cpio, star, afio and occasionally tar. An archive is an archive is
an archive so the process of moving an archive to tape "should not" care
what the archive is -- famous last words.
Howard
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