On 03/02/10 14:23, Sean Carolan wrote: >> The next thing I'm going to try and to is see if I can simply tar the >> entire raw partition onto tape. Does bacula support this type of >> backup? > > Ok, I'm running a backup of the raw device now and it's nice and zippy > now, I've already backed up 6GB in the last couple of minutes. > Awesome! Now I suppose I just need a script that can unmount the > partition before bacula runs.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest afio instead of tar. afio rather than cpio because it does the same job (reading and writing cpio archives) with much less CPU load than traditional cpio, and either rather than tar because in the event of a damaged archive, recovering files from after the point of damage is (in my experience) easier and more reliable with a cpio archive than it is with a tar archive. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users