-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > The index files are stored in the image; if the image is expired, so > is the index file. However, you can (if you wish) build a script that > runs on the server after dirvish runs (a "post-server" script) that > makes a copy of the index script into another directory and keeps those > permanently.
Also, I don't know AFIO but if it's similar to tar, it's pretty much a catenation of blocks; so it may be a good idea to write your backup scripts in a way that the tree index is first in the image. Basically, with tar if you do a tar c ./folder/file ./folder the file that you specify should be extracted very, very quickly; if it's late in the archive, you'll have some walking the tape to do. That should be nice if the backup server breaks completely so that you at least can get the indices back really quickly before restoring any other files you might want out of there - basically, you'd just need to mt a file forward, extract the index, mt... until EOT. We had something like that at a place where I used to work, and could generally restore 6 or so files/tape in an 8-tape mag in less than an hour; what felt like most of that time was tape changing time (that thing was *slow*). Correct me if this does not apply to your problem at all; as I said I don't know afio (a quick google told me it uses cpio formats, which means it /should/ apply). Yours, Bernd -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFgARQjAQAqv3HuJURAl5fAJwMhBCVnCq2qnup94v6uYCTi7ChDgCfcP8w EQiAGHyXSWm9/CjhCkmsVH8= =JeAF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
