On 16/07/10, Dan Langille (d...@langille.org) wrote: > >>>I'm just trying out Bacula and writing my first backup to tape (which > >>>will span a few tapes). > > BTW, try a restore from that backup which spans tapes... Then > compare it to what you backed up. Tape spanning backups are the > ones most likely to exhibit data loss.
Thanks for the advice, Dan. I've retrieved files successfully from each of the 3 tapes. It all worked very well. > >>If you can, I'd upgrade to 5.0.2 > > > >OK. I'd be grateful to know what the main reasons for upgrading to the > >5.0.2 series would be from the perspective of a single server backing > >itself up. > > You'll be on the latest instead of something two years old. If a > problem arises, you'll know it's most likely not 'something fixed in > the latest version'. Well, perhaps not 2 years, but > 1 years and > 2.4 started in summer 2008. Significant changes in the way things > are done. I've installed it from backports and I'm just setting it up again. Thanks for the the advice. -- Rory Campbell-Lange r...@campbell-lange.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
