Topic: backup

[vikibaby]

Hi!
I have got a travan tr-4 tape drive and i have got only 8/4 GB tapes. My hard drives capacity is more than 8 GB. I have configured my system, to back up every day. So what will be happen, if my tape is full? Is it possible to store the archives on more tapes?

[mrjhb3]

Not currently with flexbackup, you'd have to use another tape backup solution like tapeware, arkeia, etc.  I've not used either one extensively, so I can't give you a good recommendation.

JB

[vikibaby]

Thank you for the help.
Otherwise, can i use the compressed capacity of the tape (8GB), or i have to use the uncompressed capacity (4GB)?

[mrjhb3]

I used to have a travan drive.  Here is my experience, as long as you are backing up files that are not flagged to be not compressed, then you should be fine.  My 4/8 was backing up 5.5 GB of data.

This is the line in flexbackup.conf that specifies what file types to not compress.

$nocompress_types = 'mp3 Z z gz gif zip lha jpeg jpg taz tgz deb rpm bz2';

GL,

JB