[CentOS] recommneded tape drives
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Fri Dec 22 22:30:11 UTC 2006
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, John R Pierce wrote:
> Linux's built in backup tape support was somewhat funky last time I
> messed with it (I've currently got my tape backups on solaris and
> windows systems). Hopefully this has improved some, but I
> experienced problems with end of tape detection, and multivolume tar
> backups just not working right in linux, when they worked fine in
> Solaris.
We've got a PowerVault autoloader with an LTO-1 drive; it's worked
great with Bacula on Linux (both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel series). I've
certainly not encountered any end-of-tape troubles, and multi-volume
jobs are as smooth as silk^H^H^H^H any other backup operation.
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