On 9/16/2013 12:52 PM, Greg Woods 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'd recommend: 1) If this wasn't a Raspberry Pi, I'd say get a USB3 card. Instead of 25-30MB/s, you'll be able to push as much as 75-85MB/s over the wire to the drive. Even if your host is USB2, you should still make sure to get a USB3 drive. 2) Look into autofs. The autofs daemon is designed to automatically mount a volume at a mount point when requested (and it is available), then dismount it after a period of inactivity. (While we don't yet use bacula at the office for our offsite backups, we do use external USB3 drives with autofs + LUKS encryption.) 3) External 2.5" USB3 drives come in 1TB and 2TB capacities. How big is your backup set? Given the prices of LTO capable of storing 2-3TB, for a small setup, 3-6 USB drives is very attractive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
