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
