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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
Since backups came up as the other side of protecting your data and
availability in the recent discusion on raid, I am interested in the
experiences of the sysadmins here with various tape technologies and
libraries with an eye toward choosing a replacement for our failed
exabyte 220.
I really like AIT tapes. Others here really like LTO. Qualstar makes good
libraries, as does Overland (?) if I recall.
At the same time we are moving from arkeia to amanda for managing
backups. Any words of wisdom from those who have used amanda?
Amanda is a little annoying to set up and configure, but once running, is
really cool and hard to screw up. :)
Unfortunately, the only drawback, last I looked, is that the filesystems
to be backed up have to be <= the capacity of a single tape, as amanda
can't handle tape spanning.
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-- John E. Jasen (jjasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
-- No one will sorrow for me when I die, because those who would
-- are dead already. -- Lan Mandragoran, The Wheel of Time, New Spring
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