Re: AW: archiving tapes?!
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:44:47PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Paul Bijnens wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? Someone stole my crystal ball... Or did he mean amanda.conf options ? I was inquiring of the collective experience here as to what medium is currently most trusted for longterm archival storage of data. My leaning is towards the spirit of a remark by Linus (possibly inaccurately quoted here): backups are for wimps. real men upload there stuff to ftp and let the world mirror it. I'm not thinking of this so much in the sense of letting anyone mirror our data, but more in the sense of having redundant archives in geographically diverse locations that are updated and accessed over the net. I ask here about preferred mediums because I wonder if the way I'm leaning is perhaps not wise. -- Eric Dantan Rzewnicki | Systems Engineer I Technical Operations Division | Radio Free Asia 2025 M Street, NW | Washington, DC 20036 | 202-530-4900 CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION This e-mail message is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: archiving tapes?!
This one time, at band camp, Paul Bijnens wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? Someone stole my crystal ball... Or did he mean amanda.conf options ?
Re: AW: archiving tapes?!
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:25:20PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? Someone stole my crystal ball... ok. :) -- Eric Dantan Rzewnicki | Systems Engineer I Technical Operations Division | Radio Free Asia 2025 M Street, NW | Washington, DC 20036 | 202-530-4900 CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION This e-mail message is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: archiving tapes?!
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:59:32PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? There's only one: redundancy! I don't know the answer to the question you're actually asking. All the media I know of are either not great under typical, less-than-ideal conditions (magnetic) or too new for there to be much real-world data (optical) -- not that I've made much of a study of it recently, I admit. But whatever technology(ies?) you choose, making multiple copies is excellent insurance. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
Re: AW: archiving tapes?!
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? Someone stole my crystal ball... -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: AW: archiving tapes?!
Sebastian Kösters wrote: Ok. I must label every tape to get a working index. But I only have DailySet100 up to DailySet199. What happened when I'am at 199 and want to label the next tape? I think I have to start at DailySet100 again but what happened with the index/tape that was DailySet100 before? Change/extend the regexpr for labelstr in amanda.conf. Mine is: labelstr ARCHIVE-[0-9][0-9][0-9] That would count up to 999 tapes (I started at 001). If necessary make it four digits. I bet you won't even have a suitable tapedrive that can read your tapes 20 years from now (doing 50 tapes each year). If it is really for permanent archiving, you can label the tapes like: ARCH-2005-JAN-30 (there is no requirement that labels must follow numerically or alphabetically): labelstr ARCH-[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]-[0-9][0-9] -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
