We're looking at increasing our backup capacity, and I'm wondering if anyone
has any recommendations for a rackable tape changer, with about a 9 tape
capacity (I'm thinking LTO tapes) and a SCSI interface.
Anything at all would help; I'm especially interested in such devices that
you are using in
> We have several Sony AIT3 drives, and previously used Sony AIT2 drives.
> Only had one problem (one drive refused to eject a tape, had to get
> the drive replaced under warranty and got the tape back undamaged).
> I've never used Sony's changers, so I can't say anything about those
> (ours are Q
--On Wednesday, October 27, 2004 18:49:04 +0200 TheQL° <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> first of all thank you for your answer, helps a lot.
>
> Before I buy there is just one last question ;)
>
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:09:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Scsi tape
Hello,
first of all thank you for your answer, helps a lot.
Before I buy there is just one last question ;)
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:09:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Scsi tape drives are pretty uniform in their kernel requirements.
It matters little, if at all, which drive/changer
I'm going to work for the Protein Data Bank, and we're seriously talking
about using 1 TB flash drives for backups in the not-too-distant
future. It may take a few years to get down to a reasonable price
point, however.
--jonathan
We recently upgraded from DLT8000. We choose SDLT320 and its working
great. The primary reason for us was read compatability with our older
archive tapes, and the cost was somewhat lower. Since we've only had
the new changer for a couple of months, we can't attest to its
reliability, but thi
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> Regarding external vs. internal, I strongly prefer external. Tape drives
> can get hot.
Additional upside is that if you need to power cycle the tape drive for
whatever reason, you don't need to power cycle the entire server.
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 11:02am, Mike Brodbelt wrote
> So, does anyone have any suggestions, good (or bad) experiences, or
> other advice? Reliability is obviously by far the most important
> thing... I'm also curious as to whether people favour internal or
> external drives?
I have both AIT and A
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> I'm not sure what kind of box will have the tape drive but
> it has to be able to sustain 15MBs for a LTO to stream which
> is 3 times more than the DLT7000 you already have.
Ah - forgot to stick the hardware specs in the original mail. It's a
dual CPU AMD Athlon 20
* Mike Brodbelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041027 06:03]:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Amanda for ages, but the data volume I'm trying to back
> up has grown, and I'm looking for a new tape drive. Currently, I'm using
> an internal SCSI Quantum DLT7000, 35Gb nati
I'm beginning to investigate using external USB 2.0 / Firewire drives to
do backups of some systems. The idea is that we could keep 2-3 spare
PCs around, then if your computer is toast, we just ship it out for
repairs, plug your external drive into one of the spare PCs, and rebuild
the system
> So, does anyone have any suggestions, good (or bad) experiences, or
> other advice? Reliability is obviously by far the most important
> thing... I'm also curious as to whether people favour internal or
> external drives?
we moved from DDS4 to LTO when we outgrew our needs - IMHO LTO rocks and i
Hi,
I've been using Amanda for ages, but the data volume I'm trying to back
up has grown, and I'm looking for a new tape drive. Currently, I'm using
an internal SCSI Quantum DLT7000, 35Gb native, with Amanda 2.4.2p2 on
Debian Woody. Filesystems are all XFS, backed up with xfsdump.
The tape server
Hello,
on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 01:32) Frank Smith wrote:
FS> --On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 15:09:21 -0700 Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What I meant was: why does your statement differ so extremely from the
>> documentation? Or am I misreading it?
FS> The documentation
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Richard Karnesky wrote:
> 3. Force users to backup to a server
If you have sufficient spare diskspace, let the user rsync from time to time to
this space. Then let Amanda backup this space, together with the other machines
that are always available.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
I'd like to add several laptops to my current configuration. I was
wondering what solutions people used for "transient" hosts. Ideally, the
main backup configuration (which handles workstations) would run in the
evening. The downside of this is that laptops are VERY rarely (if ever) on
the n
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