Hi All,
I have been tasked with updating my company's aging backup equipment. I am
planning on purchasing a new server to run amanda along with a new robotic tape
library with two LTO-3 drives. I just want to make sure that the hardware I
have selected will work with amanda and the Linux
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 at 3:26pm, A R wrote
Server:
OS: Debian Linux
2U - 6 SATA HD slots
Pentium dual core processor (anyone have trouble with dual core?)
2GB RAM (too much? to little?)
2TB of HD spooling space, RAID0 w/four 500GB drives
120GB of operating system space on RAID1 with two 120GB
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:26:40PM -0800, A R wrote:
Hi All,
I have been tasked with updating my company's aging backup equipment.
...
Loader:
Overland ARCvault24 w/ two LTO-3 tape drives
I guess the main questions I'm trying to figure out are... ... and is
the tape equipment that I
--On February 8, 2007 3:26:40 PM -0800 A R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I have been tasked with updating my company's aging backup equipment. I
am planning on purchasing a new server to run amanda along with a new
robotic tape library with two LTO-3 drives. I just want to make sure
--On February 9, 2007 10:11:23 AM -0500 Joshua Baker-LePain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have both an AIT3 Powerloader and a LTO3 Neo2K working quite well with
amanda. I see no reason why the ARCvault shouldn't work as well
(although, admittedly, I haven't looked too hard at it)... After
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 at 3:22pm, Michael Loftis wrote
And I don't believe with those SATA drives you'll be able to run the library
even with one tape drive at full speed. LTO-3 peaks out at 80mbyte/secI
see 60mbyte/sec routinely in production, currently my tape host can't keep up
with that.
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:22:28PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
I can't recommend LSI Logic SCSI cards. The drivers in atleast 2.6 Linux
are pretty ugly.
on the (NetBSD) flip side, I've had better experience with the NCR/LSI
(esiop) drivers than adaptec (ahc). the adaptec seems to give up
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 at 5:25pm, Michael Loftis wrote
The LSI cards I've seen recently, in Linux land, are usign the symbios
drivers. Specifically the sym53c8xx_2 drivers in 2.6, and the sym53c8xx in
2.4, both equally bad. 2.6 Linux has other problems, like inabiltiy to
Erm, all of the U320
