Re: [cobalt-users] another RAQ backup problem

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

on 11/2/01 2:10 PM, Chris Dorman at cdorman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I was just looking at a collection of backups from about 5 of our cobalt raq3
> servers, and I noticed that they were all 1.99 Gig in size.
> 
> That seemed odd since we have between 130 - 180 sites on these servers. It
> seems to much of a co-incidence that all 5 servers had backup files exactly
> the same size.
> 
> After doing some checking, I found that the tar file size limit is 2 Gig.
> That means that these "backups" that we have been doing every week are pretty
> much useless. 

This limitation is not restricted to the RaQ series ... the Qubes suffer the
same problem.  

I dumped the built-in backup capability almost immediately, but since I'm
currently only doing Qubes I was able to use Retrospect and backup the SMB
or Appleshare shares easily by just mounting the volumes.

To the best of my knowledge the RaQ doesn't have netatalk or samba
installed, so my solution to the problem is not immediately applicable.
However there is light at the end of the tunnel ... Dantz are doing a Linux
(x86) client for Retrospect but unlike Legato, the Backup Server is not
horrendously expensive.

The downside is that the Linux components are still in beta testing, but
worth a look.

I don't feel comfortable posting the details of the download site, but I can
give you a contact;

    Paul Mackinney
    Dantz Development Corporation
    925.253.3098
    paul_mackinney@xxxxxxxxx

The download site also has a downloadable version of Retrospect 5.2-b1 to
use with the Linux client so you don't need to purchase the product to try
it.  You will however need an evaluation key (good for 30 days), but one is
included in the read_me.

Cheers,  Malcolm

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