[CentOS] Tape drive recommendations

[Plant, Dean]

Don Knott wrote:
> LTO3 is the standard these days... LTO4 will be out midyear hopefully
> and maybe LTO3 prices will come down. 
> 
> I use BRUServer for network backup. It provides similar services to
> what your planning to use Amanda for. They maintain a good bit of
> information at their websites about drives & scsi cards. I'm on an
> older RHEL kernel which they don't support because of scsi problems
> that require me to reboot it about 4:00am each day to keep the tape
> drive in view or it disappears. Other than that, the setup works well
> and LTO3 is fast.      
> 
> http://www.tolisgroup.com/
> http://www.linuxtapecert.org/
> 

Also don't use adaptec SCSI cards with LTO on CentOS3/4. Either the card
or the Linux driver just causes hours of heartache. LSI was recommended
to me from this list and solved the numerous problems we had while using
adaptec/LTO.

Dean