I would look to use a USB hub and something like this: http://www.maplin.co.uk/buy-hard-drives-and-memory/hard-drive-enclosures-and-docks/hard-drive-docks
The slight issue you will have is with performance, as you'll be reading and writing up and down the USB channel. ---Guy Sent from my iPad > On 16 Sep 2013, at 19:52, Greg Woods <g...@gregandeva.net> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 14:02 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: >> >> My question is whether there is any such thing as a USB tape drive that >> is known to work with Bacula. > > It's clear from the responses I got that I left out an important detail, > since all the responses were telling me why I should use something other > than a USB tape drive. > > This is a cheap home setup. My storage server is a Raspberry Pi. So I do > not have SATA bays, SCSI interfaces, or eSATA interfaces available. The > only connection for peripherals is USB. My current storage device is a > 4TB USB drive, of the "green" type that shuts itself down automatically > when inactive. But it is still connected, because I want to be able to > fire off an incremental backup for a laptop or desktop whenever I want, > without having to fiddle with hardware connections. > > I want a secondary backup device that can be used for migration and/or > copy jobs. For this one, I don't want the media always online, because > of course I want to insulate myself against software going nuts, power > surges, etc. (yes I have a UPS and those are very good but they are not > perfect; ideally, I'd like to copy my full backups to media that I can > store offsite). > > At this point, I can see three options: getting a USB tape drive, using > a second hard drive that I manually connect and mount as needed, or > using another machine in the house as a secondary storage server (more > complicated to set up and maintain) so that other hardware options > become available. > > --Greg > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! > 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint > 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes > Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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