Hi, I am using a Cybernetics CY-8960 stand alone tape drive. It uses 8mm Mammoth-2 cartridges which hold 60GB native / 150GB compressed. Nightly I backup 55 clients and it has performed reasonably well for me. The tapes are pretty expensive, but I think they are cheaper than DLT.
Jeff On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 10:39, Johannes Niess wrote: > Gene Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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, > > Don't spend money too fast. > > So you're saying that the compressed size of your biggest disklist > entry is over 20 GB on a level 0? > > In this case you could make different disklist entries for all sub > directories, creating new, (hidden $) shares (just for backup). This > works best if the subdir's are somehow constant and no new sibblings > are created. E. g. if you did backup \\nt\c$ , you could backup > \\nt\c$\winnt , \\nt\c$\programms, etc. > > > Or are you just getting "out of tape" errors? > > Amanda will balance the backup levels for you over time. So after a > few cycles the tape with a level 0 of \\nt (current configuration) > will have (high numbered) incrementals of all other partitions. You > could increase "dumpcycle". > > HTH, > > Johannes Nie�
