[CentOS] Tape drive recommendations

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:48:44AM -0400, Mailing Lists wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I have 15 or so CentOS servers (now v4.4, I will upgrade them all to  
> 5 when it comes out) and a few windows machines.  I am looking to  
> implement a network backup solution using Amanda.
> 
> I will be backing up 200 gig or so to start, but that will grow.
> 
> Does anyone have any recommendations on tape drives that will work  
> "out of the box" with CentOS?

Any and all SCSI tape drives will work out of the box on CentOS
(or any Linux, for that matter).

For your case, my recomendation is LTO-3 (300GB/600GB). Good space,
fair price, good durability.

- -- 
Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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