On Feb 1, 2008 10:29 AM, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Peter, I'll take a look at Amanda, but you mention that we can just 
> dump data to is as is?  That might be good enough since we just need to dump 
> the data out once a month or so, how do we do that?

Just write to it as a regular tape drive. If it's in sequential mode then
the autoloader will just swap in the next tape when you get to the end
of tape. (That's an autoloader is when it comes down to it - a way
of inserting the next tape without manual intervention.)

As for what tools to use, then you obviously can't use ufsdump
(as you say you're using zfs) which basically restricts you to
a tar variant. We split the data up so that we know that each archive
fits onto a tape (spanning multiple tapes is ugly). So write an archive;
eject the tape; wait a minute; write the netx archive; etc.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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