Re: [CentOS] recommneded tape drives

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.