Hello Phil, > I'm going to be blunt — I'm sick and tired of all the maintenance and > media-replacement issues that come with tape (and the re-run backups > because the tape drive threw an error), and I'm looking to move to a > different form of backup media. Possibly something comparable to RDX > cartridge drives, but preferably without the price premium of actual RDX > branded hardware. (Currently ~$250 for a 2TB RDX cartridge drive vs. > $60 for a 2TB external USB hard drive or $50 for a 2TB internal SATA > drive. And $500+ for a 4TB cartridge? Get outa here.) Oh, and also, > anything USB need not apply. Too slow. I do have a perfectly good SAS > controller available.
There are not many options besides LTO and RDX (and similar). I know IBM and Oracle make cartridges but they are not exactly cheap (http://www.bacula.lat/cartridges-as-an-lto-alternative-using-bacula/?lang=en). > What are folks using for removable-drive backup storage, how do you have > it configured in Bacula, and how well is it working out for you? I > desperately need a better solution here. Most people are doing remote sites or cloud backups. You could use Bacula S3 Driver (Community and Enterprise) to store on AWS and several other S3 compatible clouds. If Internet bandwidth is a problem you could hire a machine in an all SSD Cloud VM (e.g. Oracle) and use the Enterprise Bacula Global Deduplication Driver to deduplicate the traffic. The SSD is important to save the deduplication tables (~1% of your overall backup occupancy). Regards, > -- > Phil Stracchino > Babylon Communications > ph...@caerllewys.net > p...@co.ordinate.org > Landline: +1.603.293.8485 > Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 > LSI SAS2008 > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- MSc Heitor Faria CEO Bacula LATAM mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3 ] [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ ] América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/ | bacula.lat ] | [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ | bacula.com.br ] _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
