- 1. Advice - hardware (score: 1)
- Author: "Thomas M. Andersen" <tma AT it DOT dk>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:07:44 +0200 (CEST)
- Hi, I'm about to setup a Amanda-server in my network. I need to go buy some hardware but i'm not quite sure what it's going to be. I looking at a 2U Xeon SCSI rack machine with Sony AIT-2 tapestreame
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- 2. Re: Advice - hardware (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:41:10 +0200
- Is that 3-400GB every night, or over a dumpcycle? If the former, you'll need a faster tape drive. Sony claims 15MB/s for AIT2, but that's assuming 2.6:1 compression. So native tape speed is about 5.8
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2004-04/msg00183.html (12,857 bytes)
- 3. Re: Advice - hardware (score: 1)
- Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:30:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Is that 3-400GB every night, or over a dumpcycle? If the former, you'll need a faster tape drive. Sony claims 15MB/s for AIT2, but that's assuming 2.6:1 compression. So native tape speed is about 5.8
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- 4. Re: Advice - hardware (score: 1)
- Author: "Thomas M. Andersen" <tma AT it DOT dk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:43:52 +0200 (CEST)
- Ok, thanks. I have about 300 GB of data on 12 servers that doesn't change much. Then i have to be able to backup up to an additionally 100 GB spread over these servers that will grow over time. I th
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2004-04/msg00195.html (13,184 bytes)
- 5. Re: Advice - hardware (score: 1)
- Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:46:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Oops -- I should have been clearer. I'd go SCSI for the tape drive, but stick with DIE[1] for the disks. IDE tape drive support is iffy, IIRC. [1] Typo, left in because it seems oddly appropriate...
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