Hi! My first post to the list...
I browsed through ml's archives and I can see that both DLT & LTO-2 should work nicely with Bacula, but I'm need some advice in choosing between the two :-) I have around ~100 hours of video on Hi8 tapes which are getting converted to DV, needs to be cleaned a bit and then this cut-edit-only raw material has to be archived. From that 'raw' material, I plan to produce several 'movies', burn them to DVD, but I want to archive those 'movies' in DV in order to preserve quality (in comparison with MPEG). There are some slide-shows to be produces from scanned negatives... All in all, I calculate it will be around 2TB of data for storage - in the beginning. Besides that I plan to regularly backup my desktop machine (running Gentoo on amd64), as well as laptop (by connecting it to desktop via ethernet). I read lot of reviews on the net, handbooks (about technologies), studied a bit specs and has arrived at few options... In the past I used DDS-1 drive made by HP but had lot of problems with it, so I dumped DAT72 technology and do not want to consider upcoming DAT160. Then, I've arrived to the choice between the two technologies (according to my budget), ie. DLT or LTO-2 taking into consideration total cost (drive + media) for 2TBs. In the DLT camp, the option is Quantum DLT-V4, while in the LTO-2 the option is (again) Quantum LTO-2 HH drive or (more pricey) HP Ultrium 448. I am interested only for external units, so whichever I choose, I plan to hook on Adaptec 29160 or 29320 (which one do you recommend?). So, please, help me. Which technology to go, DLT or LTO-2 ? Is the justification in HP's higher price (Ultrium 448) over Quantum's LTO-2 drive? Is there any other option I didn't consider? Thank you in advance. Sincerely, Gour (hoping to soon become Bacula user himself)
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