[Gllug] Sony AIT Tape

[John Hearns]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Jones" <rich at annexia.org>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Sony AIT Tape


> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:57:34PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:15, Stephen Harker wrote:
> > > Have a look at the dump and restore commands as well.
> >
> > Using dump on a mouted file system is, errr, "brave", to say the least.
>
> 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.

Being sarrcy here, the way to do that is to use a storage array
(dare I use the term 'virtual storage'?) with a snapshot capability.
Take a snapshot, and run the backup on that.

But I will agree with you - most small/medium setups won't have that
capability.


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