Mike Branda wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> Anybody have any experience backing up to tape with Linux?? Any drive
> suggestions? I've been looking at a Sony AIT-2 drive ( SDX-520C ) as I
> can get 50GB native / 130GB compressed per tape and I have a lot of data
> to back up (hundreds of gigabytes). Sony says the drive is Linux
> compatible and 2 companies offer Linux software for it...though they
> charge an arm and a leg. I was wondering how well the amanda suite
> works and any other suggestions as I have never worked with tapes. I
> assume that archives larger than one tape's capacity can span? Any
> advice and/or actual experience with tapes and/or this drive/media type
> would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
>
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We just got an LTO3 through Dell about six months ago, stores 400GB
native and 800GB compressed per tape and each tape is around $100 -
$120. Haven't tried it with one of our Linux boxes yet but works good
with NT backup. Don't know if there is a Linux version but stay away
from Tapeware from Yosemite. We're using it backing-up around 6TB - 8TB
of data from multiple RAID 5 arrays so as to be able to keep it offsite.
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