Source for refurbished Tape Drives or Drive Repair

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:35:20PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> I'm setting up a backup server using rsnapshot to do rsync backups
> over ssh. The plan is to backup all systems to the central backup
> server each night, and then back the server up to tape.
> 
> As I understand it, Amanda sits on top of gnu tar. Can gnu tar do
> the right thing with the hard links so it doesn't try to backup the
> daily directories redundantly? On other words, ff the backups use
> 10 GB of disk space, and there are 10 daily/monthly directories, I don't
> want Amanda trying to back up 100 GB of data.
> 
> I believe dump(8) and restore(8) do the right thing in this case.
> Can amanda be configured to use dump and restore instead of
> gnu tar?

Actually, by default Amanda uses dump and restore, but can
optionally use tar.

GNU tar does the right thing, too.

-dsr-

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