Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-17 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
-backed LSI hardware raid controller can do about 62031 KiB/s write and 86399 KiB/s read. Those sorts of numbers improve steadily the number of spindles you add to a RAID collection and the higher the RAID number and (in the case of writing) if cacheing is enabled. On 16/08/09, Rory Campbell-Lang

Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-16 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
more AoE storage for a DLE, this will only run at the speeds above. Do we need a 1TB SAS disk array too? Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange Director r...@campbell-lange.net Campbell-Lange Workshop www.campbell-lange.net 0207 6311 555 3 Tottenham Street London W1T 2AF Registered in England No. 04551928

Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-14 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
you can use amadmin > to mark them as no-reuse. I periodically (typically at the end of > semesters) do a force full, mark the tapes as no-reuse, and then > pull them out of my tapecycle and put them in storage. Very useful again, thanks. Regards Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange Director r...@campbell-lange.net Campbell-Lange Workshop www.campbell-lange.net 0207 6311 555 3 Tottenham Street London W1T 2AF Registered in England No. 04551928

Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
g pool advisable? - is compression / deduplication possible? - after scanning through the wiki I can't see any references to what I think of as a backup job "catalogue". How does one know what files were part of a particular backup job?

Re: Post subject: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO

2009-08-13 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
part of a particular backup job? Thanks for any further advice. Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange Director r...@campbell-lange.net Campbell-Lange Workshop www.campbell-lange.net 0207 6311 555 3 Tottenham Street London W1T 2AF Registered in England No. 04551928