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On 01/28/2011 11:28 AM, Dan Langille wrote:
> On Fri, January 28, 2011 10:58 am, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>> On 01/28/2011 10:50 AM, Alan Brown wrote:
>>> Martin Simmons wrote:
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>>>>> Any hints?
>>>>
>>>> My advice is to forget about making overcomplicated -- a branded HP
>>>> DDS4 tape
>>>> costs less that $10.
>>>
>>> Same advice here even if using more expensive media. It's not worth the
>>> time wasted.
>>
>> Fair enough. I'm assuming then though that I should replace them more
>> often than Bacula might automatically suggest in that case, eh?
>
> How big are your backups?
The total that is ever written to the tapes in question is 1.5GB or so.
Wouldn't make much sense to waste DLT's on them (which I do use for
large jobs).
> I think it is bad form to suggest changing your tools, but in this case,
> it was suggested to me a few years ago and I do not regret it.
>
> I went to DLT from DDS a few years back (7 or 8?). Granted, most people
> are using LTO today. I managed to pick up some very good used DLT drives
> and tapes. They are much sturdier than DDS.
Yeah. I check the DDS tapes every once in awhile. Never had a bad
restore, and DLT is definitely overkill for me. Bacula is sort of a
niche software for us -- we use it for non-production backups and
backups that are not supported by HP Data Protector (which used to be
more, but now that they've upgraded a couple of times, it supports most
of what we have).
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