Amanda-Users

Re: tar's default block size & shoe-shinning

2006-06-20 03:57:54
Subject: Re: tar's default block size & shoe-shinning
From: Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu AT fedasil DOT be>
To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:49:21 +0200

owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org a écrit sur 19/06/2006 18:09:58 :


> >
> > Actually with AMANDA it might be a really good idea esp. with the faster
> > drives because there's no way you can keep them streaming over the network.
>
> Erm, I think you missed the bit where he said he's only backing up disks
> local to the backup server (and thus the tape drive).  No network
> involved.

Indeed, I have only one, big, local, 1TB filesystem to back up.

Joshua, I will reply to your previous question over my exact hardware configuration in a moment.

Thanks all for taking all this time.

Cyrille