On 8/25/05, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > pedro moreno wrote: > > > Hi people. > > > > I want to test one backup server with bacula, but i dont see this > > tape drive on the bacula supported drivers and unsupported. But maybe > > someone has no problem working with this tape: > > > > Seagate STD224000N > > Today, that's Certance ;-) > > DDS3 drive. SCSI interface. > DDS tends to break, but I use it myself... you should know what you do > to your data. And what you can spend. > > Apart from this - I see nothing that implies that you can't use that > drive with bacula. > > > I want to run on Freebsd or Linux and want to know if some has this > > tape drive working with bacula and wich version of both OS and bacula. > > I want to backup some win2k3 server and one Linux box running samba. > > Any bacula version I know, and probably many older ones, too. No problem > from that side. > OS is more fun... in short, with FreeBSD you need to know a little more > about how to set up your OS to work with bacula, but nothing impossible. > The bacula manual gives more information. > Any current linux distribution should work out of the box (when it > recognizes the drive), apart from that - bacula manual. > > Clients? No problem. > > I assume you plan to evaluate bacula. In that case, you should estimate > the data volume you need to manage before you decide which tape > technology to try. But, to my knowledge, you can use about everything > you can connect to your backup server. > > Which reminds me... has anybody ever tried using floppy disks with bacula? > > > Any information i will apreciate a lot good one or bad one, thanks > > all of you for your time. > > Start with reading the first chapters of the manual. You need to know > lots of stuff from it anyway. > > Arno > > -- > IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de >
Thanks Arno for your good information, yes i am starting reading the bacula manual, next monday i will start my setup with freebsd bacause i have more experiencied with this baby, but if i see problems i will try Linux, i have a lot of options to chose from :-). Greetings Arno. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
