<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}Has anyone come up with a way to use the DEC TL820 DLT tape silo with
}the AFS backup system? (It's a 5TB DLT tape silo with 264 tapes and
}three tape drives)
}
}I've just started to look at it, but it looks like software to drive
}the tape tower is Leggatto's network backup stuff. The lower level
}software appears to be a SCSI device for the tape controller and 3
}additional devices for the three tape drives. It doesn't look like
}the tape controller device has any way to operate as if it were a tape
}stacker type system.
We just bought a TL810 (1TB w/4 drives) to do "archiving",
but as yet, what exactly that means, or how we're going
to it remains pretty fuzzy. I believe it is possible to
ignore the Legato stuff and run the robot and tapes yourself,
which if I'm given my druthers is what I think I'd like to do.
John
--
John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
Moderator, comp.unix.wizards
Systems Software Engineer, ISU Comp Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551
<a href="http://www.cc.iastate.edu/staff/systems/john/">My Homepage</a>
