Jonathan Dill wrote:
I'm going to work for the Protein Data Bank, and we're seriously talking
about using 1 TB flash drives for backups in the not-too-distant
future. It may take a few years to get down to a reasonable price
point, however.
Hmmm - that's a bit beyond my requirements :-).
Hi,
I've been using Amanda for ages, but the data volume I'm trying to back
up has grown, and I'm looking for a new tape drive. Currently, I'm using
an internal SCSI Quantum DLT7000, 35Gb native, with Amanda 2.4.2p2 on
Debian Woody. Filesystems are all XFS, backed up with xfsdump.
The tape
So, does anyone have any suggestions, good (or bad) experiences, or
other advice? Reliability is obviously by far the most important
thing... I'm also curious as to whether people favour internal or
external drives?
we moved from DDS4 to LTO when we outgrew our needs - IMHO LTO rocks and i
* Mike Brodbelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20041027 06:03]:
Hi,
I've been using Amanda for ages, but the data volume I'm trying to back
up has grown, and I'm looking for a new tape drive. Currently, I'm using
an internal SCSI Quantum DLT7000, 35Gb native, with Amanda 2.4.2p2 on
Debian Woody.
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
I'm not sure what kind of box will have the tape drive but
it has to be able to sustain 15MBs for a LTO to stream which
is 3 times more than the DLT7000 you already have.
Ah - forgot to stick the hardware specs in the original mail. It's a
dual CPU AMD Athlon
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 11:02am, Mike Brodbelt wrote
So, does anyone have any suggestions, good (or bad) experiences, or
other advice? Reliability is obviously by far the most important
thing... I'm also curious as to whether people favour internal or
external drives?
I have both AIT and AIT3
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Regarding external vs. internal, I strongly prefer external. Tape drives
can get hot.
Additional upside is that if you need to power cycle the tape drive for
whatever reason, you don't need to power cycle the entire server.
We recently upgraded from DLT8000. We choose SDLT320 and its working
great. The primary reason for us was read compatability with our older
archive tapes, and the cost was somewhat lower. Since we've only had
the new changer for a couple of months, we can't attest to its
reliability, but
I'm going to work for the Protein Data Bank, and we're seriously talking
about using 1 TB flash drives for backups in the not-too-distant
future. It may take a few years to get down to a reasonable price
point, however.
--jonathan
