Hi Rudolf
> If you want to avoid tape back hitching, you have to have atleast:
> HP LTO-5: 47 MB/sIBM LTO-5: 40 MB/s
> HP LTO-6: 54 MB/sIBM LTO-6: 40 MB/s
>
> And I am afraid, that single 6 TB drive is not a good solution. It
> can be maybe sufficient if you first spool the data, and
Hi Davide
> I will not advise any only-drive LTO solution: if you need to spend
> less money, you could take a look at the Tandbergdata's (opps:
> Overland) 1U storageloader with LTO4 or 5, it's very cheap.
> Any "no library" LTO solutions, will require a lot of operator work,
> it will make your
Hi Ana
> I don't think this will be a problem. I had this topology a few
> years ago with a standalone LTO drive. And it worked fine for a few GB
> being backed up in a few nightly hours.
OK, sounds good. :-)
> I think you should do a few questions about your data.
>
> 1) How important is m
Hi Ana,
thanks for your reply.
> The most recent tape drives technology are LTO-6. The LTO-6 tapes
> have a native capacity of 2.5 TB and up to 6.25 TB of compressed data.
> Unfortunately it is really difficult to reach such amount of data in a
> tape. Maybe a 1.5:1 compression rate depending on
Hi,
I didn't have to take care of backups for quite a while, but now I'm
looking for a suitable solution to backup a small office.
A long time ago I used Amanda to backup a single server to DDS-2 tape.
This was in 1996 or so. The total volume to back up was about 2 GB.
Now I need to backup a bi
