iscsi information request

Hello all -

I've been using Amanda for about 4 years now, and it has performed wellbacking up my multiple Unix servers.

I'm beginning to be concerned about my old faithful tape drive, thoughand have begun looking at other solutions.

I've found a SAN device that would do both virtual tape libraries invarious formats as well as tape output. Any device that's "iscsi aware"can see this unit on the network and move data to either the tapelibrary or an actual tape. It would really be neat if Amanda couldwrite to the virtual disk and the tape.

My problem is the "iscsi aware" factor. As I understand this, FreeBSD's iscusi driver or interface is still in the development or beta stage.

Has anyone out there had any experience with this type of device? Orwith iscsi on any O/S?

I'd want to stick with Amanda for all the main features it provides ifat all possible. Combining Amanda with this type of backup server seemsto have a lot of advantages. But only if it works.

I'm looking for opinions... comments... suggestions... and caveats...before I jump into something.


Thanks for your time.

Jerry Stretch