Re: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup
At 14:04 Fri 14 Oct 2005, Gayn Winters wrote: -Original Message- My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution for our largely FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, so I was hoping for some enlightend pointers from the list. We need the following features: 20GB+ capacity USB 2.0 External $600CDN Unfortunately, I've only been able to find two drives that fit our requirements, one from Ceterance: http://www.certance.com/products/travan/travan40/STT6401U2-SST the other from HP who claims that theirs only works with HP-UX. Does anyone know if (a) either of those units play nice with FreeBSD? or (b) if there are other tape backup solutions available? Thanks for any insight. Have you considered an external USB2.0 hard drive? I love my Maxtor One Touch. On nextag.com I see a 300GB for $218 USD at Newegg. It may be worth rethinking your backup and archiving strategies. (I use removable hard drives for archiving, but that's another story...) Ditto the recommendation of hard drives. I suppose there are times when you need tape (archiving?), but hard drives are very cheap now. When our tape drive died, We went to two 250GB Seagate drives which we rotate weekly. -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup
My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution for our largely FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, so I was hoping for some enlightend pointers from the list. We need the following features: 20GB+ capacity USB 2.0 External $600CDN Unfortunately, I've only been able to find two drives that fit our requirements, one from Ceterance: http://www.certance.com/products/travan/travan40/STT6401U2-SST the other from HP who claims that theirs only works with HP-UX. Does anyone know if (a) either of those units play nice with FreeBSD? or (b) if there are other tape backup solutions available? Any SCSI tape drive will work nicely with FreeBSD. We have a few different levels of DAT DDS-2, DDS-3 and DDS-4 as well as DLT and LTO drives in various systems - all on SCSI. Dell sells DLT and DAT. HP is pushing LTO (they call Ultrium). The DLT and LTO performance are all outstanding. If you do frequent backups (recommended) I would steer away from the DAT (DDS...) because they really can't handle the heavier usage. Reliability becomes a problem over time. On some other systems we also have AIT drives working well but I haven't used them on FreeBSD yet. Unfortunately the DLT and LTO drives are rather expensive. But the high speed and reliability will be worth it in the long run. As for software, we just use dump(8)/restore(8). jerry Thanks for any insight. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of daniel Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:20 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution for our largely FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, so I was hoping for some enlightend pointers from the list. We need the following features: 20GB+ capacity USB 2.0 External $600CDN Unfortunately, I've only been able to find two drives that fit our requirements, one from Ceterance: http://www.certance.com/products/travan/travan40/STT6401U2-SST the other from HP who claims that theirs only works with HP-UX. Does anyone know if (a) either of those units play nice with FreeBSD? or (b) if there are other tape backup solutions available? Thanks for any insight. Have you considered an external USB2.0 hard drive? I love my Maxtor One Touch. On nextag.com I see a 300GB for $218 USD at Newegg. It may be worth rethinking your backup and archiving strategies. (I use removable hard drives for archiving, but that's another story...) -gayn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
