On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:25 AM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have notes on how to restore the whole potato with > "restore" that I will share with anyone the needs it -- > just ping me in the subject line. Fast compared to "build partitions, mount them, rsync from upstream snapshot or copy tarball, run 'grub-install in chroot cage', reboot" ? My first dump/restore experience goes back 25 years, and I always found the "tower of hanoi" based system of backup tape number and stacking to be quite burdensome. It used to be vital when tapes were expensive and backup media small, but in these days of bulky external drives, it seems quite pointless. The rsnapshot style snapshots on a separate pile of disk is also very fast to generate incremental updates for and can be much easier to provide backup access to users for. Even if you need media based backups, I'm personally going to be extremely surprised if modern dump/restore is faster than tarball based backups such as AMANDA provides. Do you have any measurements to verify your claims of speed?
