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Re: 2 Amanda questions
2006-02-06 12:52:32
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 at 5:32pm, zevel wrote
Thank you for your answers.
Would it be safe to consider that RHEL 9 and/or FC4 would be able to support
LTO3 ?
Err, there's no such thing as RHEL 9. There's RH 9 (which I'd advise
against, as it is awfully long in the tooth at this point) and RHEL, the
enterprise distro, which has versions 2, 3, and 4 still actively
supported. Personally, I'd go with centos (a freely available RHEL
rebuild distro) 3 or 4. As others have mentioned, make sure your OS can
talk to the tape drive, and amanda will be able to. Essentially, it comes
down to having a supported SCSI adapter.
And here's my standard warning with LTO3. LTO3 tape drives are *fast*.
Faster than any single disk drive. If you want to feed an LTO3 drive at
it's native rate, you need to actually pay attention to the disk system on
your backup server. I've got a 4 drive SATA RAID0 on my LTO3 server, and
it does pretty well.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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