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From: alan@mid.net (Alan Hannan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: DAT Backup of News server...
Date: 17 Jul 1995 04:26:52 GMT
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aplus@mlode.com wrote:
: I have a two BSDI v2.0 server environment: a news server (4.3 gb), and a main server with 1gb.  The question is: how (and how often) 
: should I back it up?  I was planning on purchasing a 4~8 gb 4mm DAT SCSI drive (HP or Connor), but I have heard the tapes can only be 
: used once or twice.  Also, I assume that I will have to run NFS to allow backups to take place from on tape drive (on one PC).


  I have found that I have no need to backup news.  Our pipe to the
net is thick enough that if I have to rebuild news, I can do it
quickly, and disk problems are rare enough to prevent my considering
news latency as an issue.  This may be different from you however, as I 
consider our servers more for feeders, than for readers.  Also, your pipe
size may vary making your considerations different than mine.

  However, I've found that  a ful lbackup of a 3 gig news spool takes quite
a long time, upwards of 4 hours on our Python tape....

  Also, using rdump, you should be able to dump to a remote host...

  "man rdump"  :)



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