I want to start using a large IDE RAID in addition to my DAT drive with
Amanda and I have a couple of questions about that.
1) Which version of Amanda should I best use ? I got 2.4.3b3 (I know b4 has
been released) and 2.5.0 and I see that both of these have support for the
file: backup device.
On Sat 31 Aug 02 16:11, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 31 August 2002 07:45, Brian Jonnes wrote:
Hi,
I think I have a faulty tape or two. What is the best recommended
way of testing this? Generate a file from /dev/urandom, write it
to the tape and md5sum it?
Most drives do the equ of
On Sunday 01 September 2002 10:09, Brian Jonnes wrote:
On Sat 31 Aug 02 16:11, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 31 August 2002 07:45, Brian Jonnes wrote:
Hi,
I think I have a faulty tape or two. What is the best
recommended way of testing this? Generate a file from
/dev/urandom, write it
I think I have been looking in all the wrong places. What size is a 112
Meter 8mm tape with and without compression? I just inherited a butt-load
of them and decided to use them for daily incrementals (nothing above 500 MB
a day)
Thanks!
Ross
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 08:24:27PM -0700, Potts, Ross A. wrote:
I think I have been looking in all the wrong places. What size is a 112
Meter 8mm tape with and without compression? I just inherited a butt-load
of them and decided to use them for daily incrementals (nothing above 500 MB
a
Some manufacturers advertise them as 10GB, but they are really
5GB native capacity. The 160m 8mm tapes are 7GB native.
Compression can make your data anywhere from somewhat larger
to considerably smaller, depending on what it is. Repetitive
text files like web logs can compress amazingly
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Potts, Ross A. wrote:
I think I have been looking in all the wrong places. What size is a 112
Meter 8mm tape with and without compression? I just inherited a butt-load
of them and decided to use them for daily incrementals (nothing above 500 MB
a day)
Which 8mm format?
