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Subject: Re: tape backup from remote
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On Monday 29 March 2004 23:47, Bob Martin wrote:
> Oddly, in the last 15 years or so, I've never had an issue with rdump
> and latency, even on the old 1.5m networks.

Right. I thought about cross-country connections when reading "remote".
Doing remote backup across the same ether works for sure.

> IIRC, amanda uses dump too.....

Amanda dumps (or tars -- your choice) to a holding disk on the backup
server. After enough data has been collected to stream to tape, the
tape is started. Keeps the tape streaming.

[snip]

HTH
- -Christoph Sold
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