We are using LTO tapes where I work and all that's on them is tar files. Nothing more and nothing less.
The scripts in use a slight modification to the ones with the tar source. Restoring is easy as tar xvf /dev/tape and using mt fsf 1 to get to the right file. As far as a third party restoring stuff it should be easy so long as they have a lto drive. + some unix + tar As far as ourselves we have 2 locations where ech location stores the other locations tapes. On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Gareth Walters wrote: > G'day all, > > We are just about to upgrade our backup > system to run under LINUX using 100/200Gb LTO tapes. > I was just thinking how much we would have to rely on the offsite backups if > something were to happen to the office. > > Does anyone have any experience getting a third party to > restore data from backup tapes? > Who did you use, what services did they offer > and what did it cost? > > TIA > > > ----Gareth Walters > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
