[rescue] backup software

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:34:39PM -0400, William Enestvedt wrote:
> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >
> > For the most part, I wish to have a scalable backup system that leaves
> > the actual archives in a format than can be read without the backup
> > system.
> >
>    NetBackup uses (GNU?) tar to write the archives, and its "database" is a
> vast directory of ASCII files with ctime time-stamps.

And therein, I assume, lies the same problem as Arkeia that you can't
back up the backup metadata without incurring recursive filesystem
behavior.


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