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Re: backup/redundancy solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chiaki Ishikawa)
Mon Jul 12 14:17:15 1999
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:25:32 +0900 (JST)
From: Chiaki Ishikawa <Chiaki.Ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp>
To: linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907101627410.20035-100000@pixel.pixelfusion.co.uk> (gordonh@pixelfusion.co.uk)
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Hi,
>On 10 Jul 1999, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
>> Gordon Henderson <gordonh@pixelfusion.co.uk> writes:
>> > So does no-one apart from me use Amanda?
>>
>> Amanda's main problem is that it depends on tar or dump, and neither
>> is all that great. Especially dump on Linux has major problems (no
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Amanda generally seems to work well.
I think the important distinction here is that
dump,tar or whatever on Linux might have a problem when
the end-of-detection is problematic with particular combination of
driver and host adaptor card. (It seems that some drivers
never had it right or have not been updated to work with the
newer error(?) recovery scheme in the later kernel, or whatever.)
Amanda on other OS such as Solaris
may work just fine as Gordon pointed out and
I am inclined to suggest a colleage to look at Amanda for
better backup strategy at the office. (We use solaris.)
BTW, I am talking to someone who is
on the receiving end of a consultation in which
a firm proposed using a Linux machine with a DAT to
serve a small scale database server.
I am VERY interested in which DAT drive and which SCSI host adaptor
card the firm would recommend. I wonder if the firm is aware of
the past problems reported regarding EOM detection and so forth.
This will show how much effort the firm has put in in order to
server their customer linix-wise.
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