Re: [CentOS] slow usb hard disk performance.

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:

Amanda can easily be run in a backup-to-disk-only mode. And it'd be trivial to manually tape some of those images for off-site storage. Doing that within amanda (i.e. backup-to-tape while also leaving images on disk) is a feature folks have talked about.

Excellent!

The question is how seemless is it? Can they stream out their images into a tape archive? It should be possible.

What about importing back a stream from a tape archive into a disk image? That also should be possible.

The ability to make verification and restores -- the two most overlooked details of off-site backup -- are what make VTL systems/approaches most lauded.