[CentOS] Tape drive recommendations

Thu Mar 29 23:32:35 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Jim King wrote:


> I am going to build a backup server around another 9650SE RAID array 
> (probably 8 drives X 320 GB) and the Exabyte LTO drive.  I estimate the 
> total cost will be under $4K for everything.

Be sure to look at 'bacula' for a server with both disk and tape.  I'm 
still running amanda tapes and backuppc on a different machine for the 
online copies but if you don't care about the compression/linking to 
hold a longer history online, bacula sounds pretty good.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com