Case in point... My department just approved the purchase of a $4,500 Iomega NAS server, to replace our NT and Unix tape backup DLT drives. I will soon be facilitating the use of AMANDA to a NAS server Vs. a SCSI DLT Tape. I look forward to the challenge/opportunity!
wab -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tapes are doomed On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 at 11:31am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I am observing that high capacity tapes continue to be expensive, while > high capacity disk drives continue to fall in price at an astrounding > rate. Non-tape writable media are also cheap and falling, though they > tend to be lower capacity. *snip* This is a *very* common discussion -- see the archives of this list or google in comp.arch.storage. Tape still has a lot of advantages, especially when it comes to archiving. > > In any event, it would be a good idea for Amanda to be ready to support > direct access devices as an output medium one of these days. Amanda already support backup directly to files on disk. It's trivial to then move those to your output medium of choice. > (The changes won't be hard.) Patches accepted, as they say. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
