Chris Visser wrote:
>
> How would we go about making Archive backups that span tapes?
>
> Currently we have 200GB/400GB tapes and we need to backup 380GB
> (according to BackupPC) to it.
>
> If we run BackupPC with ArchiveSplit set to 300000 we get the following
> after 20 hours:
>
> 2008-03-06 11:47:04 Starting archive
> 2008-03-07 07:47:04 cleaning up after signal ALRM
> 2008-03-07 07:47:06 Archive failed (aborted by signal=ALRM)
I think that means your ClientTimeout has expired. Try raising it to
something much longer.
> If we do the procedure without the ArchiveSplit we get:
>
> 2008-03-08 08:10:49 Starting archive
> 2008-03-08 15:36:34 Archive failed (Error:
> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress or split failed)
>
> Which we've taken to mean that it ran out of space on the tapes.
>
> Any advice of suggestions to get the data to tape?
If you have a lot of disk space you can let backuppc split to files in a
directory as you would for CD/DVD writing, then write them to tape with
dd or some program that knows how to keep a tape drive streaming.
--
Les Mikesell
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