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Jeff Dickens wrote:
> Is anyone using eSATA drives for removable storage?  I bought a couple
> of 1TB drives - the brand name was "Fantom" for $115 each.  Tough to buy
> tape cartridges at that price, never mind the drives.   I'd like to use
> try using them with Bacula to take big archives off site.
> 
> I guess the real need is for an eSATA card that is well supported by the
> OS.  I'm using CentOS, and I don't yet have any PCI-E based systems.

My suggestion with removable media is to treat them as backups of your
Bacula setup.  Get internal HDD, in some RAID setup, to handle your
primary backups.  Then use external HDD for a duplicate of those backups.

YMMV

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Dan Langille

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