Not very newbie geared. How meny users know of this ? Most just back it up , then when the system realy craps out , or you have a hard drive thaat is beyond repoiar , you are realy shit out of luck. You would expect to be able to load the os on a working drive , then load the tape software and then do a suscsessfull restre form tape. Just imagian the look on the poor fools face when to cant be done becouse critivcal file were lost on the drive that was was backaed up to tape that diaed and can be restored becouse the files are on a tape that can not be restored backi to a hard drive becousr the files need to be on real hd mediua to do the bloody back up. Shucks , that wort than M$ Catch 22 I think. Thanks for the info , I will not be using Arkia if that is the case. At 08:10 AM 6/30/2000 -0700, Greg Thomas wrote:
Thankfully I checked the Arkeia documentation before I deleted my old harddrive. It seems that Arkeia has no way to read tapes without having the Arkeia genereated database files available. If I had deleted my old drive I would have lost the tape indexes rendering my backup tapes useless. It seems to me that any decent backup program should be able to re-create the indexes from tape if need be. I'd rather wait awhile for it to read the tape than to not have access to my backups!
Their suggestion is to just tar up their config files on a separate tape because you will need those files for disaster recovery. They also say that they are working on a version of Arkeia where you don't have to do this.
Thanks for listening.
Greg
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