Daniel Kamm <y...@ylz.ch> wrote: > Some months ago, I was *thinking* of such a similar solution with vtapes > on hot swap disks. I was thinking of having disks instead of tapes and > the possibility to have disk volumes (like tape volumes) put in and out > of a disk array. We need to vacate media for environmental security reasons. > > We have chosen tapes becuase, > a) there was no proof-of-concept (which you now have shown) > b) hot swap disks are not meant to be exchanged that much.
When we stayed with tapes, our reason was mostly that tapes are (probably ! no had data here) more resistant when moved around to be taken to off-site storage. The enclosure is more expensive, but with LTO-4, the price-to-capacity ratio is about the same than SATA. Cordially, -- Romain Dolbeau <rom...@dolbeau.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
