Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

2001-01-24 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Bernhard R. Erdmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:34:35PM +0100) >>> Work on multitapebackup is (apparently) underway for Amanda NG >> _This_ is good news indeed. So one possible solution would be >> to go for a library instead of an autoloader, start with 1 tape >> of 50 or 100

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

2001-01-23 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! > > > Work on multitapebackup is (apparently) underway for Amanda NG > > > > _This_ is good news indeed. So one possible solution would be > > to go for a library instead of an autoloader, start with 1 tape > > of 50 or 100 GB capacity now - and hope AmandaNG will be available > > when we ne

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

2001-01-23 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
> > Work on multitapebackup is (apparently) underway for Amanda NG > > _This_ is good news indeed. So one possible solution would be > to go for a library instead of an autoloader, start with 1 tape > of 50 or 100 GB capacity now - and hope AmandaNG will be available > when we need it ;-)) What

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

2001-01-23 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! Mitch wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > Unfortunately our customer with the highes capacity needs stores > > precompressed data of several GB per month and wants them all > > available on disk. So we need to plan for full dumps of 100 GB > > and maybe even more. T

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

2001-01-23 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Unfortunately our customer with the highes capacity needs stores > precompressed data of several GB per month and wants them all > available on disk. So we need to plan for full dumps of 100 GB > and maybe even more. That's why I'd prefer a tape s

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

2001-01-23 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Patrick M. Hausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:42:33AM +0100) > I just compared uncompressed capacity. Tandberg's SLR100 gives 50 GB > uncompressed, IBM's Ultrium 100 GB uncompressed. > Unfortunately our customer with the highes capacity needs stores > precompressed data of sev

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

2001-01-23 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all! Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > * Patrick M. Hausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:11:36AM +0100) > > > What options do I have for higher capacity drives? > > Amanda still requires the largest dump to fit on a single tape. > > With filesystems routinely approaching a couple

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

2001-01-23 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Patrick M. Hausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:11:36AM +0100) > What options do I have for higher capacity drives? > Amanda still requires the largest dump to fit on a single tape. > With filesystems routinely approaching a couple of hundreds of gigs > these days there seems to

Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

2001-01-23 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi fellow Amanda users! We use Amanda for networked backup. Currently we rely on Tandberg SLR tape drives exclusively. These drives are available at a maximum capacity of 50 GB w/o compression. And they're robust, reliable and _reasonably_ fast and cheap. DLT drives max out at 40 GB w/o compressi