lrhorer wrote: > Since in this case the mounted target will never contain more than > 2TB or at most 3TB of files, rsync will inevitably try to copy the > other 20 or 30 TB of files every time. It has no way to look up the > contents of the 10 or 15 offline hard drives.
I found "Backup & Recovery, Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems" [1] to be helpful. My needs are ~400 GB, so rsync, tar, gzip, and an external 1.5 TB drive work for me. For 30 TB and/ or a "catalog & tapes" model, I'd suggest looking at Amanda [2] and Bacula [3]. HTH, David [1] Curtis Preston, 2007, "Backup & Recovery, Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems", ISBN:978-0-596-10246-3, http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102463/ [2] The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, http://www.amanda.org/ [3] BaculaR - The Open Source Network Backup Solution, http://www.bacula.org/en/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
