Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Alan Brown schrieb: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ralf Gross wrote: > > > I just had a bunch of 40 LTO-4 tapes that had problems during backups > > (or worse - only during the verify job afterwards). All from the same > > production date. So my trust in tapes is not that good anymore... > > What do the

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ralf Gross wrote: > I just had a bunch of 40 LTO-4 tapes that had problems during backups > (or worse - only during the verify job afterwards). All from the same > production date. So my trust in tapes is not that good anymore... What do the SMART stats from those tapes look

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, rorycl wrote: > An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable > for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view we > like the idea of providing a CD with each tape set of the software > needed to extract the contents Judging from

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread John Drescher
> I just had a bunch of 40 LTO-4 tapes that had problems during backups > (or worse -  only during the verify job afterwards). All from the same > production date. So my trust in tapes is not that good anymore... > For anything archived I usually make 2 copies and at one time it was 2 copies using

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Ralf Gross
rorycl schrieb: > > I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. > Apologies in advance if you see this twice. > > Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of > backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each pool changes daily but > backups to ta

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-12 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 13.08.2009 00:19, rorycl wrote: > I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. > Apologies in advance if you see this twice. Great, let's start a cross-list flame war ;-) Welcome here anyway ;-) > Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools

[Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-12 Thread rorycl
I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. Apologies in advance if you see this twice. Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each pool changes daily but backups to tape will only occur once a mont