Amanda-Users

Re: Recommendation for tape drives

2004-12-03 13:35:36
Subject: Re: Recommendation for tape drives
From: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
To: Gil Naveh <gnaveh AT cleverex DOT com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:26:47 -0500
Gil,

Amanda uses native utilities to write the tape drive.

If you tell us your OS we might have specific recommendations.

Do you have any idea the compressability of your data, and if you
want to use compression or not ? Jukebox ? Budget ?



On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:30:44PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> Can someone recommend a tape-drive that works well with Amanda and can
> backup about 40-60GB.
> 
> Thx,
> Gil
> 
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