Sean Carolan wrote: >> If you use a file-oriented approach, traversing the directories is very >> slow, and the restore will be much worse as it tries to reconstruct the >> hardlinks. An image copy will be much faster, but keep in mind that you >> have to load it all back from the tape before being able to access any >> of it. If your partition is 2TB or smaller it might be handier to image >> to to an external or removable disk that you could access directly. >> > > We'll give this a shot. Our "tape drive" is actually an HP d2d4112 > system, which creates a virtual tape changer and and tape drive.
What has worked for me (and some others on the list) is to use mirrored drives. I have a three-part raid 1 configuration with the third drive being in a hot-swap enclosure. Once a month, I take the removable drive, send it offsite, and replace it with a new drive. Having three drives in the raid means that I am still protected from drive failures while the third drive is syncing. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
