[Gllug] Sony AIT Tape

[Richard Jones]

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 :-)

Rich.

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