On Wednesday 08 June 2005 08:43, Tom Brown wrote:
>Hi
>
>Not entirely and only related to amanda but i'm sure people have
> done this before so here we go ;)
>
>Linux amanda server (WBEL4) and its using filedriver for virtual
> tapes as client does not want to spend $$$ on an LTO3 drive - a LOT
> of data here.
>
>So anyone used USB2/Firewire external HDD's as their virtual tapes?
> How does amanda/Linux handle this? I presume that amanda does not
> really care and that this is prehaps more a Linux question but any
> gotchas? makes to avoid? Does Linux mind hotplugging?
>
>Thanks guys

There was a lot of noise on one of the usb lists a while back that 
caused me to draw the conclusion that any of those adaptors with a 
genesys chipset in them were to left on the shelf at the vendor, and 
that there was a skip first byte sort of error in libusb.  Both of 
those *may* be fixed by now.  Now meaning several months newer than 
WBEL4.  If I were to consider such a lashup, the ieee1394 stuff has 
been cleaned up considerably in the last 6 months also, so I'd build 
a recent kernel, and look at the choices of firewire (ieee1394) 
enclosures available.  I'd suspect they would be far more dependable 
than usb at this time.  For one, the specs are much more tightly 
controlled in that camp than they are in the usb camp.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.