Re: [Bacula-users] Looking to move away from tape

2019-09-18 Thread David While
I do my Bacula backups to my NAS and then rsync the complete folder to drives which are then offlined after the rsync completes. David On 17/09/2019 21:05, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 9/17/19 3:37 PM, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: The other one we have is a 36-bay chassis with ZFS. We

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking to move away from tape

2019-09-18 Thread DUCARROZ Birgit via Bacula-users
We're using this one and it works fine: Drive: Tandberg LTO-7 HH SAS2 Produktbeschreibung: Tandberg Data LTO-7 HH - Bandlaufwerk - LTO Ultrium - SAS-2 Gerätetyp: Bandlaufwerk Aufnahmestandard: LTO Ultrium 7 Art: Extern Schni stellentyp: SAS-2 On 18/09/19 01:52, Dimitri Maziuk via

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes running out of space

2019-09-18 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi Alan, Kind of resurrecting an old thread. I've been running a modified version of your script daily for the past year. Last night tape run out of space on incremental backups. A report from the night before was showing 56,674 MiB of raw uncompressed space. The total of backups from all

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking to move away from tape

2019-09-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 9/17/2019 2:08 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> ... Oh, and also, >> anything USB need not apply. Too slow. I do have a perfectly good SAS >> controller available. > > > I suspect you have used USB drives in the past and found them far too > slow,

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking to move away from tape

2019-09-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users
On 9/18/19 11:19 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: >> >> ... I see around 120 MB/s write speeds. > > But ... that's painfully slow even compared to the LTO-4 drive I just > gave up on, which writes at up to twice that. Well, I get ~300MB/s despooling to SATA

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking to move away from tape

2019-09-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 9/18/19 1:23 PM, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: > On 9/18/19 11:19 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: >>> >>> ... I see around 120 MB/s write speeds. >> >> But ... that's painfully slow even compared to the LTO-4 drive I just >> gave up on, which

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking to move away from tape

2019-09-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users
On 9/18/19 12:38 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > ... But I've *got* to get > away from tape. *I* want to get away from backups. The group where we use HDDs and vchanger has data archival policy, that's what that "backup" is: an archive. But the other group, we keep the 36-bay ZFS bacula box

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking to move away from tape

2019-09-18 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/17/2019 2:08 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: ... Oh, and also, anything USB need not apply. Too slow. I do have a perfectly good SAS controller available. I suspect you have used USB drives in the past and found them far too slow, but I suggest you revisit that. Newer USB drives are not