Re: [nlug] LTO backup software?

To give a little more info this will be to back up archive video stored on HDD's from a few years back. Once the archive is current then it will just be 500GB / week. I must say I'm thankful to be on the NLUG mail list; I feel overwhelmed by all the info (beats not having a clue and not

Re: [nlug] LTO backup software?

fwiw that index was one of the major selling points in the enviroment i was in for switching to bacula over the alternatives, as all the metadata was kept in DB for easy query and rapid file restores from arbitrary time. A thousand LTO tapes spread over multiple libraries and offsite is not fun to

Re: [nlug] LTO backup software?

We are a bacula shop here. The only problem I have with it (I back up 150 unix servers with it.) is that I need to make sure the "file retention" is set very low. Otherwise it adds millions of records a day to the database and it grows and grows... -- -- You received this message because you

Re: [nlug] LTO backup software?

How often will that archived video be accessed? Amazon Glacier might be a better option if you need it backed up "just in case." On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: > fwiw that index was one of the major selling points in the enviroment > i was in for

[nlug] LTO backup software?

Hello NLUG, For those of you out there that use LTO tapes for data backup, can anyone share some knowledge / recommendations regarding LTO backup software for a SpectraLogic T50e tape library. I was told about Amanda / Zmanda and I've run into Archiware while I was at NAB. I need to back up USB

Re: [nlug] LTO backup software?

Just hook up the drives to your backup server controlling the library, and run the backup run on that filesystem. It's relatively easy, depending on what backup software you use. I've never done this operation before, so I can't affirm it's ease through experience, but the process is pretty

Re: [nlug] LTO backup software?

I've had nice luck using Bacula in the past. There is a learning curve to it, but once you're past the hills it's very nice. It sounds that you're wanting to backup data from a USB drive to the LTO tapes? Do the USB drives get changed out? If so, you might be just as simply to us tar directory

Re: [nlug] LTO backup software?

I was also a fan of Bacula for doing LTO at the scale of a small/medium MSP. There were several things it handled *much* better than any other open source option I could find relating to scale and autochanging libraries. -Blake On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Jon Moore