On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 at 11:11am, Gene Heskett wrote > That mans your indices and such are all out of date by one run. I
On tape, they are, yes. But I store the taballs on a couple of different servers with multi-disk-failure-proof RAIDs. It's not perfect, but it's worked well me for this far. > didn't like that when I got to thinking about os I go ahead and append > them to the same tape Joshua. When I was using tape, I had to reduce > the tapetype size to make sure there was room for the 2 extra files, > in my case about 100 megs. Now useing vtapes, I just watch the df > report, trying to keep the drive at 90% or so. > > So my backup has its uptodate indices on the same tape or in the same > dir of a vtape. I sleep better. :-) That is a rather good idea as well. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University