Re: [CentOS] slow usb hard disk performance.

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 at 5:49pm, Les Mikesell wrote

Amanda uses dump or tar for the backups and adds one extra block as a header to each backup. You can strip off the header with dd and restore with dump or tar alone. It was a nice system 15 years ago but hasn't had a lot of development since. It has one big flaw in that it can't split a single filesytem backup across more than one tape even though it can do many hosts/filesystems in one run splitting different backups within the run over different tapes. With todays big disks that's probably fatal.

I hardly consider it fatal. I backup 5.5TB of space (4 FSs) to an AIT3 changer without a problem. Also, tape spanning is included in the 2.5 branch, which is officially in beta now.