On Fri, 11 May 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > > Normal hot swap bay for hard > > >disk are not designed for daily use, they are designed for > > maintenance > > >only, and would break soon if I swaped the disk every day. > > > > You might want to try some (external) eSata devices. The connectors > > seem more reliable than the internal ones - and probably are cheap to > > replace... > > I was going through the reports of various amanda run, my actual tape > is reported to give about 5MB/s, so any USB2 interface would be plenty > enough.
I assume you're not using a holding disk? > What aveage tap write rate do you see in your reports (in the > statistics)? > > I get about 5000 k/s for SLR100 taep drive. I'm not using a holding disk neither, and vtapes on the (single) SATA disk of my server (yes, I do copy my vtapes to a removable disk from time to time ;-), and I get up to 15 MiB/s for level zeroes. So for a big server with a holding disk and vtapes, you can use much more than a bandwidth of 5 MB/s. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds