[TriLUG] tape drive recommendation?

[RobbyD at bops.com]

This is something I haven't looked into much. Basically the machine it's in
will be a server soon, but isn't now. So the tapedrive isn't being used now.
I have used plain old dump in the past, and that seems to work very well for
me. For lan backups I'd probably use amanda
(http://amanda.sourceforge.net/). As far as autochangers go, I was able to
find the homepage for one, called MTX (http://mtx.sourceforge.net/). Another
is "stctl" I believe.

If you or anyone else knows of another good tape backup daemon, feel free to
chime in.

Robby

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hedemark [mailto:chris at yonderway.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:42 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] tape drive recommendation?


Robby said:

> I got my Seagate SCSI-2 DDS-2 tape drive at ebay for around $100. I forgot
> the model name, but it's an older one that used to cost about $2600 new.
It
> takes up 2 5 1/4 inch drive bays, since it has a 4 tape autochanger (quite
> cool), making it's total capacity around 30GB compressed. It's also quite
> fast.

Robby, what backup software are you using?  I always wondered what the best
software was to do backups with a jukebox under Linux.

Thanks,
Chris


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