Re: [Dar-support] backing up directly to tape

[Gour <go...@at...>]

Denis Corbin <dar...@fr...> writes:

> right, It was less than 1 hour development with very little testing,

:-)

> I might consider better user interaction than just waiting 5 second to
> retry, better pause and wait for user to tell dar_split to continue...

That would be nice. Amanda/Bacula offer nice interactive dialog
informing user to insert new tape into the slot and e.g. press Return
when ready.

> You don't need to restore to check if everything is OK, just testing
> the archive is enough for that: all the data reading, CRC checking,
> archive layout coherence is done, just sending the read data to a
> black hole in place or restoring it to filesystem.
>
> 	dar_split < /dev/tape | dar -t - --sequential-read

Ahh, that's the price of being noob... :-)

Anyway, now I'm doing another test which should consume ~`1.5 LTO-2
tapes and then I'm going to perform test.


Sincerely,
Gour

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