Re: multiple tape backup?
On Saturday 29 June 2002 02:59 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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...
No need, I work from home :)
Apart from that, I use a 2xfull, 2x2xdiff pattern, switching between
full sets when the diffs get bigger than a single tape, which doesn't
happen often enough to cause me any great stress.
- Derek
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