Mandi! Andrea Venturoli
In chel di` si favelave...
> Anyone using this hardware?
Here. Work pretty well, clearly 'out of the box', no module/kernel/...
modification or other hacks; but i'm using Linux (PVE6, so debian buster).
I was (ab)used with LTO-2, 3, 4 and 5 before, and is the same; two notes
(more for LTO9 technology, not for the specific tandberg unit):
1) cartdrige seems hold really more tape that LTO-5; i was used to have tape
rewinded and unloaded in seconds, LTO9 seems it took 3-5 minutes for a full
tape to rewind and unload.
2) there's a 'tape-unit calibration' procedure to accomplish: for every NEW
cartdrige, the first time you insert it you have to wait for the
calibration to complete (1-2 hour for every tape).
This mean: don't insert a new tape friday at 18.00 if you have guests at
dinner. ;-)
I've only a problem now: tape are slow in bacula. Seems not a unit problem;
they have 400MB/s write speed specification, and with btape i can reach
350MB/s easily. But still on real backup job i cannot go better then
150-180MB/s. I'm still investigating, but as just stated it is not a unit
trouble...
--
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot
of different places, just write a Unix operating system.
(Linus Torvalds)
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