[CentOS] slow usb hard disk performance.

Tue Dec 6 16:42:52 UTC 2005
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 at 2:11pm, 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.
>
> What about importing back a stream from a tape archive into a
> disk image?  That also should be possible.

Again, replicating the on-disk backups onto tape would, at this point, be 
a manual process.  Code contributions are welcome.  ;)

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University