On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:43:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 04:12, Mike Delaney wrote: > [...] > >> >Has anyone used a REV drive with Amanda? > >> > >> I can imagine that it may be possible, with some variation of the > >> FILE: device, and as Jon mentioned, they have a 10 disk changer > >> available which to me, would make it *much* more appealing given a > >> reasonable price for both the drive and the media.. > > > >Single drives retail for ~ $350 - $450 depending on type (internal > > IDE, external USB, etc.). Media lists for ~ $50 ea. The > > autoloader appears to list for ~ $2200. So the hardware is a bit > > cheaper than a (new) comparable capacity tape unit, but the media > > is more expensive. > > Humm, thats not too bad, although the $ for the changer would scare > this SS recipient off I'm afraid. As would a fifty per disk when the > tapelist gets up towards 20 or so. OTOH, with that 36GB capacity, I > could do a dumpcycle of 2 days here, so I'd only need 4 or 5.
Yeah, running a traditonal Amanda setup with that kind of media cost gets a bit pricey. One thing you could do with them, since they're random access media, is to setup a chg-disk library of several smaller vtapes on each, and treat the REV disks as magazines.
