On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:01 -0500, Chris Moore wrote:
> 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.
> >
> 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.
Impressive!! The Drives seem to run about $2500-$3000 though.
Compressing the data, this would get me down to 3 or 4 tapes total for
all the servers.
> 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.
>
Yeah, Yosemite makes Tapeware for linux too. I'm not sure what I'm
going to do now. If the technology is sooo bad and the data integrity
might not be intact, and the software sucks why do so many people use
them??
Mike Branda Jr.
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