Arkeia can not verify tapes after a backup. Some time ago they had on their web site a statement that "real" people did not backup to a tape drive without hardware verify support (read head after write head).
If you think that such a drive will keep you safe, think again. It works until the drive is broken (read head broken, more specifically). I had bad expirience with Arkeia and VXA-1 drive. I ran backups sucessfully for a long time. As soon as I tried to restore deleted data it failed. After some hardware diagnostic I found the read head on VXA-1 was defective.
Tapeware 6.3 (and NovaStor NovaNet 8.5 that is exactly the same product) does not restore special files (devices, fifo, sockets, etc) under Linux. You can not use it to backup/restore whole machine. Pathnames are shown as \a\b\c\d. It does not display file type (regular, symbolic link, etc).
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Arkeia can not verify tapes after a backup. Some time ago they had on their web site a statement that "real" people did not backup to a tape drive without hardware verify support (read head after write head). If you think that such a drive will keep you safe, think again. It works until the drive is broken (read head broken, more specifically). I had bad expirience with Arkeia and VXA-1 drive. I ran backups sucessfully for a long time. As soon as I tried to restore deleted data it failed. After some hardware diagnostic I found the read head on VXA-1 was defective.
Tapeware 6.3 (and NovaStor NovaNet 8.5 that is exactly the same product) does not restore special files (devices, fifo, sockets, etc) under Linux. You can not use it to backup/restore whole machine. Pathnames are shown as \a\b\c\d. It does not display file type (regular, symbolic link, etc).