From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell at gmail.com] > > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 16:11, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > 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. > > The tricky part is that amanda mixes up the filesystems on tape > in no particular order and keeps an index online to tell you > which tape(s) to insert when restoring. When it flushes the > disk copy out it adjusts the index for the new location so > without a patch it won't use the disk copy even if you saved > one. There is a tool for rebuilding the index from the tape > if necessary and you can figure it out by hand as a last > resort but I don't think there is one to look at the holding > disk again. > I just dropped in on this thread about Amanda. I'm currently looking for a backup to disk solution for a new system and am curious how well Amanda would work. I've got a large raid partition that I want to backup onto a removable hard drive. The tricky part is that the filesystem is made up of over a million tiny (2-3k) files. Would Amanda be able to deal with that type of filesystem? Thanks, Bowie