For a while I thought I'd never have to go back to tapes but have decided for various reasons that I need to archive onto tape as well. Since we have dirvish in place the banks are already replicated to multiple locations the tapes would only need to be pulled for true disaster recovery scenarios. So far, my thought it so spin a set of level zero tapes once a week from the most recent dirvish image of each host. In addition to the dirvish data (~1TB) we also have many TBs of large files (some in excess of 1TB, and expected to continue to grow) that need to be spun to tapes as well.
We've acquired a LTO4 library for the job and are trying to choose what software we should drive it with. It seems like Bacula and Amanda can both do the job. We'd probably avoid using the built in schedulers and kicking off the jobs at the end of our existing backup scripts but still need something that track, change and span tapes for us. Any suggestions? -- Kelsey Cummings - [email protected] sonic.net, inc. System Architect 2260 Apollo Way 707.522.1000 Santa Rosa, CA 95407 _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
