Hi Davide

> I will not advise any only-drive LTO solution: if you need to spend
> less money, you could take a look at the Tandbergdata's (opps:
> Overland) 1U storageloader with LTO4 or 5, it's very cheap.
> Any "no library" LTO solutions, will require a lot of operator work,
> it will make your solution quite unusable.

Well, I have to admit that I'm a bit concerned about that, too. I'm the 
one to handle the tapes and I know I will be board quite soon and forget 
to change tapes before I leave and so on.

        Tandberg StorageLibrary T40 1x LTO-4    4400 EUR
        Tandberg StorageLibrary T40+ 1x LTO-5   5200 EUR
        Tandberg LTO-6                          1700 EUR

I didn't think about the tape prices for now, but the library solution 
is at least 2800 EUR more expensive than a single LTO-6 drive.

The problem is, the whole backup thing is not considered to be imported 
here, yet it is, and the present situation is extremely risky and there 
is an obvious need to change things and it should be done before things 
go wrong.


The question is probably, what happens if a tape change is forgotten. 
Say I have scheduled backup job for the night and the tape is not change 
in the evening. Will this mess up everything or will the job 
automatically be run as soon as the needed tape becomes available?

I seams to be possible to get cheap old used libraries. Is it possible 
to change the drive?

I once did this a long time ago with a MOD library system. I was easy to 
do as the library was controlled via RS232 and did not at all 
communicate with the drive. Do modern LTO libraries work the same way?


> The official bacula online bacula documentation (
> http://www.bacula.org/7.0.x-manuals/en/main/index.html ) it's pretty
> good.

In deed it seams to be, I already had a look and it.

See you
Flo

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