On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 22:11, Craig White wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a tape drive that meets these requirements? > > > > > > 1) easy to get working in Fedora Core 3 & 4 > > > 2) reliable > > > 3) works fine with Amanda > > > 4) stores 200+ Gb on a tape or single set of tapes > > > > > > If it's easy and obvious how to eject and insert tapes, that's a plus, > > > since this is going to be in a location without any real techies. > > > > > > > I would expect any SCSI drive to work. Choose your vendors and ask them: > > in this market they're well aware of Linux. Even Dell. > > > I heavily recommend LTO technology. LTO 100 would store 100Gb > uncompressed and amanda certainly works better if you use it without > hardware compression. LTO 200 is 200Gb uncompressed. > > You should also check out 'bacula' for backup as amanda is clearly not > usable for 'location without any real techies' Amanda is painless as far as making backups goes - all you normally have to do is change the tape sometime during the day and it will send email to remind you if you forget and dump to a holding disk if you still don't do it. So, consider it if you can provide help if a restore is needed - or you can use it for tapes that are held offsite and only used for disaster recovery and set up backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) for easy online access with disk based storage. It uses compression and linking of duplicate copies to hold much more than you would expect. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
