On 08/22/2017 05:07 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>> On Aug 22, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> However if you want to backup to removable disks and put them on the shelf 
>> when full, that's where things get less than perfect fast.
> 
> Is this a common use case?  I'm not challenging your approach. I am seeking 
> knowledge about how Bacula gets used.

I don't know but there is RDX so there's gotta be some demand.

On the flip side, we went from AIT to HDD and never even touched LTO. I
mean, they only guarantee backwards compatibility to 2 generations and
have version creep worse than iPhones. Who in their right mind would use
LTO for their long-term storage, and we have plenty of hard drives
laying around.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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