Hi,
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:13, Paul Heinlein heinlein@madboa.com wrote:
IMHO, if you still use tapes, forget the past and move to the future of disk-based backups, and adopt Backuppc as your tool.
There are trade-offs here. Tapes are generally regarded as having a longer shelf life than disks, and they're less susceptible to physical damage during transport -- both important if off-site backups are part of your strategy.
Yes, tape for offsite copies are fine, but these days I don't see any reason why to back up directly to tape instead of staging to disk first.
If you do backups to disk with BackupPC, you can use "dump" to efficiently create an image of that filesystem to tape, and then send that tape offsite.
Or, as another poster already mentioned, you can do your offsite through the network by using a remote BackupPC server or using rsync to keep a copy of your local backups on a remote machine.
Filipe