Seann

I use Sun C2 and SL24 autoloaders with LTO3 drives. Operation is
flawless - I divide cycles into runs, load tapes, and check mail every
day.

The drives themselves are Quantum drives.

Regards,

Sean 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Seann Clark
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:45 AM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Tape drives -- Recommendations? 

All,

    I am fairly new to the list, not so new to Amanda (I usually troll
IRC when I am looking for help half the time) but I want to poll the
group for suggestions to aid in what I am looking into as well. I have a
system currently that has 3.12TB of data, which I would like to start
backing up regularly, and soon will increase that to a larger number as
well. I am looking for a good service tape drive that can take care of
the physical offloading of backups, and that plays well with Amanda. I
have an old SCSI HP SureStore that I can never get to really back up to
(Pity it was a nice drive for the time, esp when I was maxed at 700GB)
though it can read the tapes, write to the tapes through Amanda, it just
dies partially through and freezes up the drive. What I am after though
is a backup system that is tape based. I would prefer non SCSI, but I
can work around that.


The other alternative I am looking into is getting a large external case
and cramming it full of 1TB hard drives and using that as backup, but I
would like a tape system that works well. I haven't gotten that portion
to work too well in the past, but since it was a first time doing it, I
am very sure it was a fatal user error that was preventing it from
happening.

Thanks in advance,
Seann