I need this to be as simple as posible as im leaving in the next few days and want to get ti sorted.
Using Suse and tar to disk.
On the server i have a folder that contains the last 10 days data in /backups/year/month/ then it has the zip files for each day in there.
If i write these to tape, on the tape it creates /backups/year/month/ list of files.
After i put the tape in the follow week with out rewinding what will happen
as will it create a new /backups/year/month list of files? so there will be 2 /backups/year/month on there with reoccuring dates so how would i go about restoring the correct files.
Or would it be better just to keep 5 days data on the server so that theres no duplication of data on the same tape. or should i rewind the tape at the start of each back up?
TIA
Using Suse and tar to disk.
On the server i have a folder that contains the last 10 days data in /backups/year/month/ then it has the zip files for each day in there.
If i write these to tape, on the tape it creates /backups/year/month/ list of files.
After i put the tape in the follow week with out rewinding what will happen
as will it create a new /backups/year/month list of files? so there will be 2 /backups/year/month on there with reoccuring dates so how would i go about restoring the correct files.
Or would it be better just to keep 5 days data on the server so that theres no duplication of data on the same tape. or should i rewind the tape at the start of each back up?
TIA