On 11/30/05, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 23:52 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > > Matt Morgan 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. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > 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. > > > > Once you have some candidates, then ask here (and maybe nahant, where > > they take their computing more seriously:-)) > ---- > I'm not so sure that nahant list takes computing more seriously, the > price of entry ensures that the list is mostly of admins whereas Fedora > has a lot of Linux newbies. > > 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' Thanks. I'll be administering the OS and software remotely. I just can't change the tapes from here :-). > > As John suggests, SCSI tape drives will pretty much work out of the box > with most software. IDE tape drives will certainly cause more setup > grief. Thanks again for all the advice. > > Craig > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
