Again, my tirade against tape drives. DO NOT USE TAPE MEDIA FOR IMPORTANT BACKUPS!
With tape media you will never know if your backups are indeed reliable when the time comes and you need to restore from them. Tropical climate makes the tape media vulnerable to fungus, so unless you store your tapes in a climate controlled room.... What to use instead: Hard disks are cheap. You can get 500Gb SATA/IDE drives and bind them with Linux SW RAID 5 or RAID 6. This gives you a cheap redundant network backup server which you can easily rebuild if one or two drives fail. The nice thing about hard disk drives is that when one fails, you will know - syslog will tell you, or in the case of SMART enabled drives, it will report failures way before the actual drive will die, giving you time to replace it. Also, with disk based media, you have the opportunity to use intelligent backup software like rsnapshot/rsync instead of just blind dumping of a tar.gz. -my $0.02 On 8/1/07, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that only PRINTS OUT the filenames. a real verify would say confirm > that the md5 checksums are correct on each file inside the tar. > > > On 8/1/07, thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tar -tvf file.tar > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
