I guess the most effective way as of this moment is to stage backups...Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape.
As of this moment I only have a tape drive. I need to request a budget for a new machine with large SATA drives to implement a staging solution/server redundancy. Still the question remains, if I am already using staging, how can I verify if my tape backup using TAR? Is amanda a better solution? Any amanda users who can share their experience? Best Regards, Gerald -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Junix Gaspar Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 6:02 PM To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: Re: [plug] Verifying TAR backup 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.... Well usually with tapes you have a daily backup. And usually nowadays, tape is just one backup solution aside from offsite dump all others that you can think of. The more options you have, the better your data will be available. However, I have an HP ML570 here (and DL380), but the USB is ver 1.1 . With it, I can't put a USB external backup. Its just way tooo slow over that USB link. Anybody got the same issue or is it just me. Also, for a proprietary (HP, IBM, etc) server, where would you put the IDE harddrive for backups. Unless you open the case itself and put it there. Now that would be hard to remove as you have to always open the case and shutdown the server. No pun intended but if you have a good solution for this, I'm open to it. At the end, tape backup is still is used for backup but, not as a final solution. You have to have another one. I think thats the right thing to say.
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