On 6/8/2018 2:26 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 06/08/18 13:48, Stieneke, Dan wrote:
Googling for those entries I found
http://bacula.10910.n7.nabble.com/Bacula-tapes-marked-FULL-too-early-VolBytes-too-low-td58881i20.html.
Similar issue (but no report of tar), the thread ended with "similar problem went away with
replaced drive" & "get your drive tested"
I have to declare I'm getting awful tired of replacing my tape drive
every few years, and I'm looking forward to being able to replace it
with some kind of cartridge SSD.
I suppose it depends on backup size and frequency, etc., but I use
portable USB 3 disk drives for a few small businesses and have been
happy with it. The drives themselves average around 110 MB/s. Drives are
used with vchanger 1.0.1 as a virtual autochanger, Bacula 9.0.6, Centos
7.5, MariaDB 5.5, .on a fairly weak E3-1240 server with SATA hard drives
in RAID 1, actively running two VMs along with Bacula. A 398 GB virtual
full with 7 volume swaps takes 02:08:25. Not real fast, but 4 TB drives
are $100 US. Many small businesses can get all the media they will ever
need (apart from replacing the occasional broken drive) for less than
the cost of the LTO changer, not even counting the LTO media. Plus, the
USB 3 interface means no extra hardware needs to be off-sited for
disaster recovery. I think this is the way to go for small business. The
shear volume of media for large sites makes LTO cheaper and D2D2T makes
more sense.
I have a hard time justifying RDX in comparison to portable USB hard
drives. There's a vast difference in price, but I don't see the vast
difference in functionality.
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