From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965452AbXDIUIi (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:08:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965456AbXDIUIi (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:08:38 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:57533 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965452AbXDIUIh (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:08:37 -0400 Message-ID: <461A9D42.9000008@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:08:34 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Heskett CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Stoffel Subject: Re: I give up References: <200704091007.58535.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200704091137.01336.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <17946.29660.368403.553290@smtp.charter.net> <200704091549.51805.gene.heskett@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200704091549.51805.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gene Heskett wrote: > For those of you with big tapes that can hold a complete dump of every > partition (and partitions is the only way dump works in case some have > forgotten), go ahead and use dump/restore. Tar quite simply, allows one > to break his backup files down into small enough pieces that a tape drive > that's only 20% of the system drives size is totally usable. I ran dds2 > tapes for a long time, and it wasn't at all unusual to have amanda fill > those to the 95% or better mark every night for a week running, without > ever hitting EOT. Wow, people still use tapes for backup? With current hard drive prices (200GB @ US$55, 500GB @ US$120) you can just keep buying hard drives :) Surely tape price/GB is higher than hard drive price/GB... Jeff