On 03/02/10 14:23, Sean Carolan wrote:
>> The next thing I'm going to try and to is see if I can simply tar the
>> entire raw partition onto tape.  Does bacula support this type of
>> backup?
> 
> Ok, I'm running a backup of the raw device now and it's nice and zippy
> now, I've already backed up 6GB in the last couple of minutes.
> Awesome!  Now I suppose I just need a script that can unmount the
> partition before bacula runs.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest afio instead of tar.
afio rather than cpio because it does the same job (reading and writing
cpio archives) with much less CPU load than traditional cpio, and either
rather than tar because in the event of a damaged archive, recovering
files from after the point of damage is (in my experience) easier and
more reliable with a cpio archive than it is with a tar archive.


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