Re: [BackupPC-users] Tape Backups?

[Gregory S. <gs...@ze...>]

On 2005-03-04 17:58 -0600, Les Mikesell <le...@fu...> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 17:04, Gregory Sutter wrote:
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> > I brought up Bacula because not many seem to know about it, yet it
> > is a worthy backup system with some particular strengths.  I imagine
> > it would back up a BackupPC machine quite well.  It certainly has
> > far better tape spanning capability than amanda!
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> The question is: how long does it take to restore a filesystem
> containing a huge number of hard links?  If you can't restore in
> a practical amount of time it doesn't help much to have the tape.

Les,

I'm afraid you'll have to experiment with it to determine that.  My
org's current backup scheme doesn't involve tape, so I'm not using
Bacula except at home on a single drive.

Greg
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