On 16.02.2015 10:02, Gour wrote: > Hello, tried with forums, but got no reply, so I'm trying here now... > > I'm considering to upgrade my current backup system consisting of Amanda > and LTO-2 drive/tapes. > > My needs are to regularly backlup my desktop machine (2X1TB disks in > raid-1) and occasionally perform backup of my netbook (320GB disk > drive). > > Besides that I have collection of 13 LTO-2 tapes mostly uncompressed > material (old hi8 movies and scanned negatives). > > Considering that LTO tapes are quite expensive and I'd have to buy at > least LTO-4 if not wanting to skip over two-generations lap, I'm > considering to switch to RDX disks/cartridges and wonder if anyone can > share their experience of using Amanda with RDX disk-based backup? > > By looking at docs, I've found the following: "How To:Using removable > hard disk changers as Virtual tapes" from the wiki (forum software does > not allow me using URLs ), but would like to hear if/how Amanda is > suitable for the task?
Interested as well! pls share, people ...