Oops, of course, my mistake.
I'd like to thank you all for your input, it really helps me a lot !

Laurent.

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

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.

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