Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:36:35 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition Size Message-ID: <41F6BBE3.3090909@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <200501251710.j0PHARC28090@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200501251710.j0PHARC28090@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > This 'rest of the disk' should be divided up into chunks that can > be dump(8)ed to one backup media if possible. Otherwise you will > get sloppy and not do backups because it is harder. Since there is a What kind of nonsense is this? I've never heard about such an advise, and it doesn't make sense to me. Surely dumping a filesystem to multiple tapes isn't more, most likely less, effort than dumping n filesystems to one tape each. The only case this doesn't hold is when you're using amanda, but that's hardly a home setup, and comes with a special backup discipline anyways. Actually, I doubt that many people use tape backup at home, considering how outrageously expensive the stuff is, and the inexpensiveness of usb disks these days, which are a lot easier to handle than tapes. mkb.
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