* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-08 15:33]: > I'm seriously looking into getting a tape drive but, of course, I can't > afford a new one. I'll see what I can get on the commercial-used market > (not eBay) with a bit of a waranty (beyond DOA). Right now, it would be > connected to my Athlon64 box which is the only one that could stream > data fast enough. The data will likely only come off one 80 GB Seagate > SATA drive at a time which limits it to about 40 MB/s max.
that is _plenty_. the regular DLT 40/80 do 5..6 MB/s at most, the DLT VS80 3. > I know that the FAQ says to just use dump to make backups but what if > you want a tape of a specific group of files for archiving? When last > did the dump format change? Since it reads the filesystem directly, I'd > assume that its filesystem-specific. What if you want portablility > across OSs and filesystem types? Is there any more-or-less universal > format? dump format has not changed in ages. you can rely on restore(8) beeing able to handle any dump done in quite some time. I would scream and strongly object to any changes thereabout :) > Re Amanda: for me, its likely too complex since I only have two boxes > and one is a desktop only. Right now it runs its own backup script to > create a tarball then the main box rsyncs that over to it. yes, amada is nothing I'd use :) -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
