Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Brian Cuttler wrote:
It sounds like a good feature - if you have enough holding area
you could even hold files for a configurable number of days.
You'll need a way to differentiate held files from ones that didn't
properly flush though, perhaps moving to a subdirectory of the
holding area, YYYYMMDD-HELD or modifying the file name somehow.
Would it be possible to replace taper by a wrapper that uses `cp -l' to create
a hardlinked copy of the backup data first?
It's more complicated than that, because the header of a
file-in-holdingdisk is different than that from a file on (v)tape.
Moreover, holdingdisk files could be chunked, while (v)tape images
are not. (Even when using the Tape-chunking patches currently in
beta, the header are different, and the tape-chunks could be different
size.)
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