[BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Arkeia Light

[Lars P. F. <lar...@no...>]

Hi,

We're running BackupPC (Version 2.1.0, released 20 Jun 2004) and
Arkeia Light 5.2.20-1 on our Linux server.

We use Arkeia to backup our backuppc directory on tape. The problem we
have is that the backups on tape take much more space than on disk. 

I've seen the discussion on the list about other backup applications
having problems with BackupPC's hard links. But Arkeia claims to
handle hard links and we have not been able to manually recreate the
problem.

I wonder if there is anyone out there that have experience running
BackupPC and Arkeia in this kind of configuration?

Has anyone used another free tape backup-system, for instance Amanda,
that works well with BackupPC? (Unfortunately the new archive feature
in BackupPC does not help us since we want to backup the whole
BackupPC configuration and data.)

When we tried to manually recreate the problem we created a file with
a couple of hardlinks to it. In that case Arkeia only saved one copy
of the file. Is this example not sufficient to simulate BackupPC's
usage of hard links?

Regards,
Lars Persson Fink.