[NTLUG:Discuss] Tape Drive Recommendation

[clayramsey1@comcast.net]

Chris - the 4TB figure is interesting to me.....

how do you set that up given the 2TB capacity of the 2.4 kernel?  Are you running 2.6 already?

> Preston wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have always used DDS4 tape drives in the past with good success and 
> > was wondering if anyone had any experiences, good or bad, with any other 
> > tape formats.  Speed does not matter that much (the backups will be run 
> > in the middle of the night by a cron job), but cost and reliability are 
> > important factors.  20GB is enough space for now (current backups are 
> > only ~5 GB with bz2 compression) and should be for a while, but bigger 
> > is always better ;)  One reason I have always stuck with DDS tape drives 
> > in the past is that the protocol has been around for a long time and 
> > therefore tapes, drivers, etc. are easy to find.   I don't want to get 
> > stuck with a tape standard that is dropped in a year or two and be 
> > unable to find tapes.
> > Thanks for your help.
> 
> We run LTO at the office now.  We use a home grown Linux based
> system we developed.  It uses rsync with the clients to a large
> 4TB disk cache (daily snapshots) and weekly archival to an
> LTO library.  We use mtx ... the rest is just normal SCSI
> tape stuff.
> 
> At home I like OnStream... but they went belly-up (sad).
> I have an extra OnStream 50G ADR internal SCSI unit
> sitting around right now.... but you might not be interested
> since the technology is essentially dead.  Good performance
> for a cheap price though.  I'll have the 120G version with
> my machine at the Linux Fair.
> 
> 
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