On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:05:22PM +0930, Adam Smith wrote: > > I've been looking around at tape drives and backup software, and I had > Amanda recommended to me. Upon looking at amanda.org, I didn't see any > kind of Hardware Compatibility list. Is this more dependant on the > operating system itself? > > Devicewise, I was thinking about perhaps going with the Ultrium standard > because it seemed to be a high capacity standard (200Gb+) that would see > us into the future, but as yet have not decided on the right unit to use > for this purpose. > > Since this backup system will now be implemented from scratch, I was > wondering if I could get some opinions on the following: > > a) Which backup units would people recommend for a detatched device > backing up approximately 200Gb+ > b) Whether or not Amanda would have any difficulty in working with such > a device > c) Whether or not the above (a) and (b) would work correctly under > FreeBSD
Amanda does not actually perform the backups. It is a backup "manager". One of her strengths, IMO, is the use of standard unix utilities to perform the backups. Thus, if gnutar and/or your favorite "dump" utility can talk to the tape drive, if mt can rewind and position the tape, if one of the supplied changer scripts can operate the changer (usually they can, particularly if the drive is scsi), then amanda should work fine. So your first assumption was correct, hardware compatibility is mostly a function of the os and its utilities. Others may have direct experience with Ultrium drives, I don't. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
