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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:04:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Raistrick <drais@wow.atlasta.net>
To:        Domas Mituzas <domas@mail.lt>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: larger backup solutions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211050756090.26615-100000@wow.atlasta.net>
In-Reply-To: <3DC6EB50.6090505@mail.lt>

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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


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