Subject: Re: SCSI tape drives and changers
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/09/2001 19:20:45
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > _should_ work fine with NetBSD and amanda, I'm wondering if anybody
> > > has any recommendations as to drives they've found to work well...
> >
> > I have an Overland library with a DLT7000, driven by a NetBSD 1.3.3 with
> > amanda-server-2.4.1p1, I'm very happy with it:
> > 4:21PM  up 319 days,  5:05, 1 user, load averages: 0.11, 0.13, 0.13
> >
> > backup about 10-15G per day.
> 
> IMHO it's hardware overshoot. for this i would but one DDS-3 or DDS-4
> drive.

Exept I want a reliable backup drive. I'm not interested in writing tapes
I can't read 6 months laters.

And, on occasion we have to write 30G to a tape.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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