[Gllug] Sony AIT Tape

Jim Bailey jim at freesolutions.net
Wed Jun 18 13:11:25 UTC 2003


On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:23:50PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:14:19PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> > >
> > > But sometimes necessary. How else do you reliably back up a 1/4TB
> > > filesystem with a million subdirs on it over the network to an Amanda
> > > backup server?  On a 24/7 service?  FWIW I modified dump so that it
> > > worked mostly-reliably on a loaded live server under various
> > > assumptions about how you write to said server.
> > >
> > > Linux really needs a way to do this properly ...
> > 
> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html
> > 
> > I'll be the first one to admit that I'm talking twaddle, and didn't
> > understand you.
> > Also don't like having red in tooth and claw flame fests with people I
> > respect.
> 
> Actually I take it back since I didn't know LVM now does this.
> 
> The "buy Veritas"/"buy a storage array" was never an option :-)

EVMS (again ;)) Helps combine LVM, RAID and supports all native Linux
file systems including xfs and jfs.  cmd line for scripting ncurses and
a full GUI if you want it.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs12/

Peace Jim

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