On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 01:01:59 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:43:51PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > On 16.02.2015 10:02, Gour wrote: > > > Hello, tried with forums, but got no reply, so I'm trying here > > > now... > > > > > > I'm considering to upgrade my current backup system consisting of > > > Amanda and LTO-2 drive/tapes. > > > > > > My needs are to regularly backlup my desktop machine (2X1TB disks > > > in raid-1) and occasionally perform backup of my netbook (320GB > > > disk drive). > > > > > > Besides that I have collection of 13 LTO-2 tapes mostly > > > uncompressed material (old hi8 movies and scanned negatives). > > > > > > Considering that LTO tapes are quite expensive and I'd have to buy > > > at least LTO-4 if not wanting to skip over two-generations lap, > > > I'm considering to switch to RDX disks/cartridges and wonder if > > > anyone can share their experience of using Amanda with RDX > > > disk-based backup? > > > > > > By looking at docs, I've found the following: "How To:Using > > > removable hard disk changers as Virtual tapes" from the wiki > > > (forum software does not allow me using URLs ), but would like to > > > hear if/how Amanda is suitable for the task? > > > > Interested as well! > > pls share, people ... > > No experience, hadn't heard of RDX. When I looked them up I was > struck by the cartridge price compared to external USB or eSATA drives. > For similar capacity the cartridges seem 5x the price. What is the > advantage of the RDX setup over just swapping in and out external > drives?
Sales hype? I dunno. But let me point out that for less than a 100 dollar bill, tigerdirect has sata drive cages that can hold 3 sata drives. 5, standing in a row across the width of a 5.25" slot will cost a bit more. Claiming to be hot swap, I crashed the system by ejecting a drive that was not mounted, so I have been doing full powerdowns since. It has a good sized fan on the rear and keeps my drives at not over 40C, so heat, even in the long term doesn't seem to be a problem. I wish now that I had bought the 5 drive version, but thats hindsight. Jim is using several of them at the tv station for backup raids and quicker than stink video servers. We originally bought a pile of Apples huge pizza box servers for that, found they were too slow, and to add insult to $5500 each injury, they all burned up (literally) in under a year. So now he builds our own using intel stuff, centos and these cages. They can read 4 tv channels at a time while recording 2 from a satellite feed. The first one he built is still working fine although its lost a drive or 3 in the last 6 years. The apples couldn't touch that with 4 of them. And Apples warranty is 100% at their convenience, the fact that you are off the air doesn't mean squat to Apple. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
