16 May
2017
16 May
'17
1:23 p.m.
Sebastian> I had a student in one of my courses, and she backs Sebastian> everything up to tape via scripted SMTape instead of Sebastian> NDMP. Fast, reliable, cheap. I remember being thoroughly Sebastian> impressed, in addition to female storage admins being a Sebastian> rarity...
Sebastian> Would that be an alternative? I'm not familiar with the Sebastian> details of her solution, though, or if she had a tape Sebastian> changer. But it was not a small environment Sebastian> (Hamburg/Germany waterworks).
I'm certainly going to look into this for my future backups. The problem of course is that to restore a single file you need to restore it all, starting with the base full snapshot I would think.
But certainly tempting.