On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 at 8:51am, Nicki Messerschmidt wrote
does anyone know a good tape library which supports hardware encryption under linux with amanda? I thought about an lto-4 drive but there seems no linux support for the encryption part und gpg is too slow on this machine... ;)
To second the other response, you need a fast server (with fast disks) to drive an LTO3/4 tape drive. Each drive in my LTO3 library has a dedicated 4 disk RAID0 made up of 10K RPM disks to feed it. And I still need to use XFS over ext3 on those RAIDs to get decent tape speed.
You can't drive LTO with a low-end server. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF
