On 9/14/2013 4:02 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> Pardon me if this is a dumb or frequently-asked question, but I have not
> found a definitive answer searching the list archives, Google, or the
> Bacula documentation.
>
> My question is whether there is any such thing as a USB tape drive that
> is known to work with Bacula. When reading about tape drives, I see
> phrases such as "DLT" and "LTO", but the only USB tape drives I have
> been able to find available are "DAT 160". I know next to nothing about
> tape technology, but I'd like to have a tape device so that I can
> migrate my backups from an attached hard drive to tape, so that I have
> copies of my backups that are not on a device that is always connected.

Since the tapes themselves can be stored anywhere, why do you care if 
the tape drive is connected? I think there just isn't much need for a 
USB tape drive because there is no reason not to use SAS/SATA or SCSI, 
and USB (except for perhaps USB3) is too slow for the sustained 
throughput of LTO drives.'


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