From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 5 8: 4:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB1337B404 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:04:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from wow.atlasta.net (wow.atlasta.net [12.129.13.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5262B43E75 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drais@wow.atlasta.net) Received: from wow.atlasta.net (localhost.atlasta.net [127.0.0.1]) by wow.atlasta.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA5G4ALk034666; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:04:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (drais@localhost) by wow.atlasta.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id gA5G49HW034663; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:04:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:04:09 -0800 (PST) From: David Raistrick To: Domas Mituzas Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: larger backup solutions In-Reply-To: <3DC6EB50.6090505@mail.lt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder what backup solutions (1-10T) are best suited for FreeBSD > datacenters. What I came to is... Sony StorStation LIB162, HP > StorageWorks, HP SureStore libraries, Hitachi Thunder 9200? Or is it > still cheapest way to build boxes stuffed with IDE hard drives? I picked up an Overland DLT LoaderXPress LXL8110 (though the vendors seem to drop one of the 1's often and call it the LXL810..). 10 DLT8k capacity, one drive. They have other tape formats available as well, though the DLT is the only one I looked at. It works great with amanda and chg-chio (and FreeBSD of course!). Only problem I had is that when chg-chio loops back from tape 10 to tape 1, it doesnt read the tape label correctly...so it then skips on to tape 2. I wrote a wrapper that handles the tape changing for me. (It checks to see what tape is next, checks what slot that tape should be in, then advances to that slot.) Just my few cents. :) ...david --- david raistrick drais@atlasta.net http://www.expita.com/nomime.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message