Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> 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.
I have experience with an IBM Ultrium LTO Library (20 slot changer).
We've had it about a year. The only problem so far has been a power
supply failure that was fixed under warranty. Amanda ran incrementals
for a few nights until we got it fixed. I'm backing up three Linux
boxes (soon to be four), so I'm not approaching the tape capacity yet.
>
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