} -----Original Message----- } From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- } owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Leslie Rhorer } Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 9:36 PM } To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx } Subject: RE: Is My Data DESTROYED?! } } > Cool, I learned something. Thanks. } > } > I use disks too. Could "seek" using dd, but I also gzip my stuff and } use } > cpio. :( Anyway, I almost never need to restore a file. :) } } I rather like fbackup combined with gzip, but I don't know if there } is a Linux port of fbackup. I use fbackup to create a named index for } each } backup set, whether on disk or tape. This makes it easy to see if a } particular file is on an archive without having to load the archive. } Where do you keep this index? Hopefully not on the disk that needs to be restored. :) I thought about it, for my needs I don't need an index. You don't need an index for a full restore and I only need to restore once every few years. And so far, never needed a full restore, just a file or so. I can live with a few hours to restore 1 file. But I really need a faster backup. My 500GB USB disks gives me about 15 MB/sec. I don't know why it is so slow. Should be able to do 40+. Oh, I did have a 22 tape library with a DLT-8000. But it failed a few years ago. Was really cool, but took forever to backup 300-400GB. I guess my USB disk is about the same speed, and it takes forever too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
