Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:29:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone have experience with DLT stackers? Message-ID: <199807212229.PAA02370@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:03:34 PDT." <199807212203.PAA27258@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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> I'm working on implementing "amanda" for backup & recovery. > > We're in the process of switching from DDS (4mm) media to DLT. > > I believe that it would be useful to at least begin to plan for the > (eventual) deployment of a stacker (though it need not be more > elaborate than a simple "gravity" stacker). > > The vendor we're using (Andataco, evidently -- I'm still a little > new here) has a couple of stackers with similar characteristics; > each handles up to 7 DLT cartridges, but one is made by Quantum, > and the other is made by Exabyte. > > Anyone have a feel for which is more likely to work adequately for > FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE? They should both work just fine. I'm not too happy with Amanda though; it has the major drawback that it doesn't work well with stackers (you can't split a volume across multiple tapes, for example). Most stackers are well-behaved it seems; see the chio(1) manpage for the control interface we support. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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