> I initially suggested RAIT to the submitter, but he said he was not > considering that -- if I remember right RAIT actually requires something like > 5 tape drives. Maybe I am wrong on that though, because I looked at the code > about 5 years ago. > The link talks about a 3 drive raid 5 RAIT perhaps they allow other raid levels so RAID 0 could allow 2 drives with 2 times the chance of failure...
> In any case, once you are talking about an LTO4 drive, it is currently > impossible or nearly so to drive it full speed (except possibly by some high > end IBM mainframes), so why complicate things when Bacula still lacks a lot > of nice features ... :-) > Agreed. Unless you have the tape drives connected directly to your file storage machine so you are not using a network, you will have to use 10G NICs and switches or multiple Gbit cards with load balancing to saturate a single LTO4 drive. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
