IT Manager via Bacula-users wrote (2023/06/26): > I'm looking at replacing 4 different backup systems with a single solution > that can backup > Windows (server and desktop), Linux and Unix. Bacula is currently very high > up the list but > there's one make or break requirement, which is tape backups. > Due to the number of systems we need to backup, we need a decent sized tape > library (40+ tapes) > that can handle 3 or 4 tape drives and LTO 6 tapes. > > Can anyone recommend suitable hardware that will work with Bacula without too > much swearing and > cursing being required?
Hello, new tape library with LTO-6 can be hard to buy today. Maybe LTO-7 drives would be the way to go, or look for something used, or rather switch to LTO-9 or LTO-8, because raw data capacity is pretty cheap and it is nice to have 5 to 7 times bigger data capacity using the same number of slots and 2 times better speed. Further, 3 or 4 tape drives needs something from midrange rather than entry level. There are many products. I expect that all of them or atleast most of them would be just to buy, install, connect, use and pay support ;o) You can look at HP StoreEver MSL3040, Quantum Scalar i3, Overland Tandberg NEOxl 40, Qualstar Q48 Autoloader or Q40 Library, StorageTek SL150 (my case), and certainly more. -- Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vut.cz> https://www.fit.vut.cz/~cejkar Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology Bozetechova 1/2, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
