-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- porn aside, the append to tape feature is something I'm glad it doesn't have. amanda is designed to be a robust backup system, and the ammount of tape space is to be used is assigned automatically by the amanda server. the reason for this is to reduce the risk of a tape failure taking out backup data. on an append-to-tape system, if a single tape fails, you can loose days, or weeks of data. I know this because we had a mac server with retrospect, and the tape was corrupt, and then the disk fs crashed and we lost a month of data. append to tape is bad way of doing backups, anyone who wants to setup an append to tape system should think about the cost in man-hours to re-create data when the un-thinkable happens. - -ben "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Scott M. Dier wrote: > Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > > I believe mondo does go to tapes now. If you're using tapes, however, > > I'd probably just use Amanda. Yes, there are lots of complaints about > > it not being able to append-to-tape, but think of it as a simplification > > Just use all that new backup space as an excuse to buy 1/2 TB raid > arrays and download more porn. :) > -- > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBPG3ZHctpDhsSpvgtAQH2vAP/Rna80E14Ar3w2OtPfNZDPGEKVLOE2x6c biPLq0V5F+FGm9W2WBA0KvzVfxclDoD4NhfrUV1y3DFdXJ0TuYSJ+yQP3Ldb0av2 ffD1EKmqB4vh9xmYGboAn1NCrggs0vNvkBp4j7jV4Q9D7bvD0EKXXE1ztbdxdewI RVSru3W1IZU= =Z0gt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----