Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Simpson
Folks -- I want to thank everybody for all the feedback. Diskwise, it's nice to know that IDE solutions are workable, and I'm going to look into them. Politically (isn't it always about the politics?) I'm in all likelihood going to be forced into using Dell hardware, and as far as I can

Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 October 2002 09:13, Mike Simpson wrote: Folks -- I want to thank everybody for all the feedback. Diskwise, it's nice to know that IDE solutions are workable, and I'm going to look into them. Politically (isn't it always about the politics?) I'm in all likelihood going to be

Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-14 Thread jens persson
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:13:20AM -0500, Mike Simpson wrote: I'm still curious about hooking up an AIT3 tape library to Linux, and whether or not the mtx or scsi-changer drivers can actually control something like a QualStar or Overland tape library. Is anyone out there using AIT3 tape

Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-14 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, October 14, 2002 08:13:20 -0500 Mike Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks -- I want to thank everybody for all the feedback. Diskwise, it's nice to know that IDE solutions are workable, and I'm going to look into them. Politically (isn't it always about the politics?) I'm

questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-11 Thread Mike Simpson
Folks -- I've been using amanda for a couple of years now on Sun hardware (DLT8000-based L9 tape library, with stctl as the tape changer controller). It's worked great, but I'm nearing capacity with the current system and trying to decide whether to expand (another L9 and a load of DLT-IV

Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 October 2002 10:00, Mike Simpson wrote: Folks -- I've been using amanda for a couple of years now on Sun hardware (DLT8000-based L9 tape library, with stctl as the tape changer controller). It's worked great, but I'm nearing capacity with the current system and trying to decide

Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-11 Thread John Koenig
The amanda control host would be a smallish Linux rackmount job with attached SCSI+RAID disk enclosure -- currently I'm considering a Dell PowerEdge 1650 (1U, PIII-based) with a Dell PowerVault 220S (3U, 14 x 36 GB Ultra160 SCSI disks + PERC/3 RAID controller). Doing a RAID-5 + hot spare across

Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, October 11, 2002 12:13:46 -0700 John Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The amanda control host would be a smallish Linux rackmount job with attached SCSI+RAID disk enclosure -- currently I'm considering a Dell PowerEdge 1650 (1U, PIII-based) with a Dell PowerVault 220S (3U, 14 x

Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 October 2002 15:13, John Koenig wrote: The amanda control host would be a smallish Linux rackmount job with attached SCSI+RAID disk enclosure -- currently I'm considering a Dell PowerEdge 1650 (1U, PIII-based) with a Dell PowerVault 220S (3U, 14 x 36 GB Ultra160 SCSI disks +

Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution (fwd)

2002-10-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 at 9:00am, Mike Simpson wrote The amanda control host would be a smallish Linux rackmount job with attached SCSI+RAID disk enclosure -- currently I'm considering a Dell PowerEdge 1650