On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:43:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 04:12, Mike Delaney wrote:
> [...]
> >> >Has anyone used a REV drive with Amanda?
> >>
> >> I can imagine that it may be possible, with some variation of the
> >> FILE: device, and as Jon mentioned, they have a 10 disk changer
> >> available which to me, would make it *much* more appealing given a
> >> reasonable price for both the drive and the media..
> >
> >Single drives retail for ~ $350 - $450 depending on type (internal
> > IDE, external USB, etc.).  Media lists for ~ $50 ea.  The
> > autoloader appears to list for ~ $2200.  So the hardware is a bit
> > cheaper than a (new) comparable capacity tape unit, but the media
> > is more expensive.
> 
> Humm, thats not too bad, although the $ for the changer would scare 
> this SS recipient off I'm afraid.  As would a fifty per disk when the 
> tapelist gets up towards 20 or so.  OTOH, with that 36GB capacity, I 
> could do a dumpcycle of 2 days here, so I'd only need 4 or 5.

Yeah, running a traditonal Amanda setup with that kind of media cost
gets a bit pricey.  One thing you could do with them, since they're
random access media, is to setup a chg-disk library of several smaller
vtapes on each, and treat the REV disks as magazines.