On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 at 11:11am, Gene Heskett wrote

> That mans your indices and such are all out of date by one run.  I

On tape, they are, yes.  But I store the taballs on a couple of different 
servers with multi-disk-failure-proof RAIDs.  It's not perfect, but it's 
worked well me for this far.

> didn't like that when I got to thinking about os I go ahead and append
> them to the same tape Joshua.  When I was using tape, I had to reduce
> the tapetype size to make sure there was room for the 2 extra files,
> in my case about 100 megs.  Now useing vtapes, I just watch the df
> report, trying to keep the drive at 90% or so.
> 
> So my backup has its uptodate indices on the same tape or in the same
> dir of a vtape.  I sleep better. :-)

That is a rather good idea as well.

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