Re: multiple tape backup?
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 02:54, Derek Gladding wrote:
> On Friday 28 June 2002 07:40 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 22:33, Derek Gladding wrote:
> > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:25 pm, pahud@pahud.net wrote:
> > > > Hello list,
> > > >
> > > > I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB
> > > > in size with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool
> > > > for easier multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape
> > > > myself.
> > >
> > > Afbackup works well for me. (DDS3 tapes / ~120G backup set).
> >
> > Do you have a "stacker", i.e. autoloader?
>
> Nope, just a plain DDS3 drive. Afbackup spits the tape out when it's
> done and if I don't give it a new one in time, it gets impatient and
> emails me to ask for a new one.
>
> I think it's supposed to support autoloaders, but have never tried
> it.
If you can afford them, they sure are a dream: load the hopper and
go home. cron kicks off the backup in the middle of the night...
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