On 05/19 11:35 , Les Mikesell wrote: > Have you ever restored one of these tapes, and if so, how long did it > take? As a wild guess, I'd expect a couple of days where an image copy > would be an hour or two.
I think it's about 8 hours to create the tape (whereas when using LVM snapshots it took almost 2 days). I've scanned and recovered files from the tape, and it takes a few hours, depending on where on the tape the file is. I've never convinced the company to do a full test restore (we're contractors, and doing that test would cost more money); but I have scanned the tapes and checked their integrity, and that takes a healthy long time. An image copy would indeed be much faster. I prefer a file-level backup rather that filesystem-level backup simply because recovery in case of corruption is much better. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/