Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Seann Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other alternative I am looking into is getting a large external case and cramming it full of 1TB hard drives and using

Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-10-17 15:23, Greg Troxel wrote: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Seann Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other alternative I am looking into is getting a large external case and cramming

Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2008-10-17 15:23, Greg Troxel wrote: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is certainly merit in the hard drive approach, but you can lose two critical properties if you aren't careful: full backups offline (not

Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-15 Thread Seann Clark
All, I am fairly new to the list, not so new to Amanda (I usually troll IRC when I am looking for help half the time) but I want to poll the group for suggestions to aid in what I am looking into as well. I have a system currently that has 3.12TB of data, which I would like to start

Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Seann Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other alternative I am looking into is getting a large external case and cramming it full of 1TB hard drives and using that as backup, but I would like a tape system that works well. This option is worth considering.

Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-15 Thread Seann Clark
Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Seann Clark wrote: All, I am fairly new to the list, not so new to Amanda (I usually troll IRC when I am looking for help half the time) but I want to poll the group for suggestions to aid in what I am looking into as well. I have a system currently that has

Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Seann Clark wrote: All, I am fairly new to the list, not so new to Amanda (I usually troll IRC when I am looking for help half the time) but I want to poll the group for suggestions to aid in what I am looking into as well. I have a system currently that has 3.12TB of data, which I

RE: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-15 Thread Connors, Sean
Of Seann Clark Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:45 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Tape drives -- Recommendations? All, I am fairly new to the list, not so new to Amanda (I usually troll IRC when I am looking for help half the time) but I want to poll the group for suggestions

RE: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-15 Thread Dmitri Joukovski
or autoloaders. Regards - Dmitri Joukovski -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hoogendyk Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:35 AM To: Seann Clark Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations

Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Seann Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other alternative I am looking into is getting a large external case and cramming it full of 1TB hard drives and using that as backup, but I would like a tape