-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Dickens wrote: > Is anyone using eSATA drives for removable storage? I bought a couple > of 1TB drives - the brand name was "Fantom" for $115 each. Tough to buy > tape cartridges at that price, never mind the drives. I'd like to use > try using them with Bacula to take big archives off site. > > I guess the real need is for an eSATA card that is well supported by the > OS. I'm using CentOS, and I don't yet have any PCI-E based systems.
My suggestion with removable media is to treat them as backups of your Bacula setup. Get internal HDD, in some RAID setup, to handle your primary backups. Then use external HDD for a duplicate of those backups. YMMV - -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoRsw8ACgkQCgsXFM/7nTzjGQCfa4625+A3X73ZOMHE90T2PUxs GFkAoJb0wbYH8UlOTb5Y6xdw+Obf53Qb =InSb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
