On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 21:16 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: > > I use it to backup to HDD. In my configuration , it emulates a set of > 300MB tapes that you can burn to disk (the tapes are only a tar.gz file > with a text preamble. This preamble even has instructions on how to use > dd and tar to recover anything directly from the file , or you can use > the amrecover tool to automatically recover what you need. > As for DVD, I dont know if amanda supports it. But then , you can always > make a backup to disk using fake 4GB tapes and then after the backup is > done , you simply copy it to DVD. > > As for it being a standard.. It is an excelent tool . I've worked with > it on my last job as sysadmin and it helps a lot. No need to have tape > drives and manually searching for a file on all tapes.. Just remmember > to backup you tape index files.. Without them , all you can do is > manually recover from the tapes, without the help from amrecover. That sounds like the winner (for my purposes anyway) emulate set of 300MB tapes (or whatever) If using DVD-R, growisofs a directory containing the tape set and index files. Place burns down, you can revover the backup server including indexes from the off site DVD and restore your boxes.
