[CentOS] slow usb hard disk performance.

Mon Dec 5 22:11:24 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at earthlink.net>

Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at 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.



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