At Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:11:57 -0500 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dus...@zmanda.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote: > > I picked a 'virtual' tape size to match the capacity of a DVD-R: 4.3Gig, > > with the idea of migrating the fulls and the more major incrs to DVD-Rs > > for long-term archival. > > Ah! You should take a look at both the dvdrw device (for writing to > DVDs) and at amvault (for copying dumps to other volumes). In 3.2, > amvault will be able to do exactly what you want - pluck the fulls off > vtapes and put them on DVDs. I want things to run from a cron job. We only have a single DVD burner. I only want fulls and *some* incrs on the DVDs, not all of the incrs. Also I am pretty much stuck with 2.5.0, since that is what comes with CentOS... (I don't at this point want to 'experiment' with a bleeding edge self-built package, not for something like this.) > > Then you can adjust your vtape size to something that fits your backup > schedule better. > > Dustin > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database hel...@deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk
