Hi all, I hope this isn't considered off topic. I have been running amanda now for a month or so and all is going well (thanks to alot of help from this list!).
My tape server is a Sun E250 (Solaris 8) with a single DDS-4 tape drive. I'm backing up approximately 15 clients (mostly solaris 8 /linux - RH7.2) with three windows boxes. The last windows box I added is taking me over the limit. It has 4 large partitions, the largest of which can't ever seem to fit on the tape with everything else when it does a level 0 dump. I don't really want to go the manual changer route since the backups are cron'd and nobody is around in the middle of the night to change tapes. I'm starting to look at another tape drive solution and leaning towards DLT. I've seen references to AIT-2/AIT-3 also; I'm not sure what that is. I'm not up on my tape technology I guess. I'm thinking of a DLT stacker or maybe a low end DLT tape library. Does anyone have any recommendations that they know works well with Amanda? There seems to be plenty of h/w to choose from based upon my web searches and looking at vendor sites, but I don't want to purchase something that isn't going to work with Amanda. I couldn't find any info like this in the FAQ and my search of the archives didn't turn up anything either. All input very much appreciated! Thanks, Gene -- Gene Matthews Matthews Midrange Consulting, Inc. (678) 923-8327 (877) 882-6291 (toll free) http://mmc-inc.com
