Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 00:31:17 -0600 From: Tim <tim@sleepy.wojomedia.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Benjamin Lewis <bhlewis@wossname.net>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Solutions Message-ID: <20030106063117.GA25282@sleepy.wojomedia.com> In-Reply-To: <a05200f03ba3eb69b7b28@[10.0.1.3]> References: <3E0EBC49.86AD7E28@mindspring.com> <a05200f09ba3573361365@[10.0.1.5]> <3E0FF119.7792A270@mindspring.com> <a05200f0cba3853b5bcaf@[10.0.1.5]> <20030101124419.GA14165@sleepy.wojomedia.com> <a05200f01ba3d46e475cd@[10.0.1.3]> <20030105051402.GA2710@sleepy.wojomedia.com> <a05200f05ba3d77f8f699@[10.0.1.3]> <1041825639.793.65.camel@akira.wossname.net> <a05200f03ba3eb69b7b28@[10.0.1.3]>
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> > span a single backup image over more than one tape. > > Ahh, yes. That would be a killer. I have a 40GB hard drive in > this PowerBook G4, with one partition/filesystem of 15GB and another > of 19GB, and I don't know of any reasonably priced tapes that can > hold that much data -- I don't trust the Ecrix VXA stuff, because > they got bought by Exabyte, who has a vested interest in seeing the > technology die in favour of their in-house stuff. If you use tar, you can breakup the partition into smaller portions. This has always been the most requested feature in Amanda. I always ended up going back to Amanda though, despite the limitations. Once you get it going, it is very reliable and requires little or no maintenance. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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