Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:33PM -0500, Alastair Neil enlightened us: > >On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:53:43PM -0500, Alastair Neil enlightened us: > >> My experience with amanda in the past is that it will not write level 0 > >> dumps only to holding space - is this incorrect? If this is the case

Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Alastair Neil
On 3/1/07, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:53:43PM -0500, Alastair Neil enlightened us: > My experience with amanda in the past is that it will not write level 0 > dumps only to holding space - is this incorrect? If this is the case then > indeed my configurati

Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:53:43PM -0500, Alastair Neil enlightened us: > My experience with amanda in the past is that it will not write level 0 > dumps only to holding space - is this incorrect? If this is the case then > indeed my configuration is overly complicated. I have in the past > maint

Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Alastair Neil
My experience with amanda in the past is that it will not write level 0 dumps only to holding space - is this incorrect? If this is the case then indeed my configuration is overly complicated. I have in the past maintained a 9 months backup history - that would be about 270 tapes - a lot of LTO2

Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2007-02-28 21:09, Alastair Neil wrote: > I have a question regarding how best to manage backups to vtapes and > archival onto tape media. > > First a little history, I used to have a DLT4 9 tape changer and have > been running my backups through this for about 3 years now. This > changer faile

disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-02-28 Thread Alastair Neil
I have a question regarding how best to manage backups to vtapes and archival onto tape media. First a little history, I used to have a DLT4 9 tape changer and have been running my backups through this for about 3 years now. This changer failed and for a number of reasons was not under support.