Re: [SLE] server 8.0 versus professional 9.1
From: Jerome R. Westrick (jerry_at_westrick.com)
Date: 06/30/04
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To: Suse Users <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:57:48 +0200
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 07:43, John Andersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 June 2004 03:37, Leendert Meyer wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 11:37, John Andersen wrote:
> > > Tapes can be put in the safe, taken home, etc. The only thing that comes
> > > close in the disk world are those Laptop drives in external firewire/usb2
> > > enclosures.
> >
> > There are USB and FireWire Cases, where you can put an IDE or ATAPI drive
> > in. Here in the Netherlands, an external USB case is about EUR 40,- an
> > USB/FireWire case is about EUR 80,-. So you could use HD's as tape
> > cartridges...
>
> Yes, I have one of those. Use it to back up my laptop. Works great because
> I can stack about 7 backups onto a 40 gig drive
>
> >
> > > but even those require more management effort than a tape.
> >
> > Why is that?
>
> No volume management (rotation), no serial numbers, etc.
>
> Plugable storage tends to be finaky under Linux yet, working in one
> version, broken in the next.
>
> All the software is set up to do tape, so dealing with disks requires
> you to manage the rotation, deleting of TARs (or BRUs in this case)
> when they are obsoleted.
>
> Drop a disk, and it may well be useless (especially if running)
>
>
Maybe you are trying to use tape backup software for your backup
harddisk... That would cause all those problems...
But have a look at StoreBackup. It's designed for backup to disk.
is extreemely easy to setup, and offers more than a tape backup
could dream of. It's on the SuSE Cd's so it's just a little click
away from being installed, tested...
Although I don't know if it handles removable hardisks...
If you are doing backups to hard disk, you really should use software
designed for disk, not tape...
Jerry
>
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