LTO is the most commonly used tape drive technology among Amanda users. Last
year we conducted an extensive survey of Amanda usage and almost 40% of
respondents said they use LTO tape drives:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Results_of_Amanda_Users_Survey_2006

Regards
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Dmitri Joukovski

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org]
On Behalf Of Alan Pearson
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:09 PM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: LTO3 / LTO4 autoloader

We've been using a HP 2024 LTO3 autoloader (24 slot) for about 1 year  
now.

It's been reliable and damn quick (50MB a sec on average).

Controlled by amanda with help from chg-ztx  and mtx


Runs pretty much without intervention, just like all good backup  
systems.


---
AlanP


On 7 Nov 2007, at 15:53, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:

>
>
> Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
>> * Marc Muehlfeld <Marc.Muehlfeld AT medizinische-genetik DOT de>  
>> [20071107 05:50]:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm currently thinking about buying a LTO3 or LTO4 autoloader,  
>>> because my old Superloader 1280 DLT seams to die soon.
>>>
>>> What are your experiences with amanda/mtx and LTO3/LTO4 drives/ 
>>> autoloaders? Any suggestions?
>>>
>>
>> I have good performance with the overland arcvault24 with 2 x lto-3.
>> Just make sure that the server can handle the i/o to the drives. LTO4
>> is a hungry little beast, have plenty of holddisk! I have 2 SATA 1TB
>> disks in a logical volume with big stripes just for that.
>
> I know there are lots of people using LTO and happy with it.
>
> Just wanted to note that I have been very happy with my AIT5. So,  
> if you are switching types anyway, I think it is worth taking a  
> look at AIT5. I made the jump from individual DDS/3 on all servers,  
> so I had no commitment and looked at everything. The choice of AIT5  
> vs. LTO4 is really separate from particular vendor and library.
>
> I was also extremely price conscious in my choices, so I looked at  
> Overland and liked them, but couldn't come up with the budget to  
> buy one. My LIB-162 from Sony is a carousel changer, which is  
> mechanically simpler than the robots. So it was less expensive, and  
> I'm hoping that it will be more reliable in the long run when I'm  
> out of the 3 year warranty and my department fails to come up with  
> any kind of service contracts. ;-)
>
>
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