Advice needed for backups

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 21:16 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

> 
> I use it to backup to HDD. In my configuration , it emulates a set of 
> 300MB tapes that you can burn to disk (the tapes are only a tar.gz file 
> with a text preamble. This preamble even has instructions on how to use 
> dd and tar to recover anything directly from the file , or you can use 
> the amrecover tool to automatically recover what you need.
> As for DVD, I dont know if amanda supports it. But then , you can always 
> make a backup to disk using fake 4GB tapes and then after the backup is 
> done , you simply copy it to DVD.
> 
> As for it being a standard.. It is an excelent tool . I've worked with 
> it on my last job as sysadmin and it helps a lot. No need to have tape 
> drives and manually searching for a file on all tapes.. Just remmember 
> to backup you tape index files.. Without them , all you can do is 
> manually recover from the tapes, without the help from amrecover.

That sounds like the winner (for my purposes anyway)
emulate set of 300MB tapes (or whatever)
If using DVD-R, growisofs a directory containing the tape set and index
files.
Place burns down, you can revover the backup server including indexes
from the off site DVD and restore your boxes.