Re: [Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Simone Caronni
On Dec 4, 2014 5:58 PM, "Dan Langille" wrote: > Bacula talks to the SCSCI interface, not to the tape library itself. If it talks SCSI to FreeBSD, it should just work. Same in Linux. Also iSCSI libraries work. -- Downloa

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Bryn Hughes
On 2014-12-04 07:33 AM, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, We are looking for a solution to backup freebsd machine with large ZFS pools (8TB) We thought of purchasing a tape library with LTO6 drives which will gives us 40TB of Retention Everyone seems to indicate bacula as a good solution but when I loo

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 12/04/2014 11:18 AM, Ian Lord wrote: > I know I am going against the trend as everyone is talking about > using HD as a backup device... No, if tape's your requirement then tape is your requirement. I was just asking if it really is. > But let say a hacker would manage to get in and play arou

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Dan Langille
> On Dec 4, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Ian Lord wrote: > >> Dunno about prices in .ca but south of your border $5K will buy you a >> 36+2-bay chassis where you could keep a whole lot of zfs snapshots. >> Probably 72+2 even. What's your planned retention period? > >> Dima > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Ian Lord
>Dunno about prices in .ca but south of your border $5K will buy you a >36+2-bay chassis where you could keep a whole lot of zfs snapshots. >Probably 72+2 even. What's your planned retention period? >Dima ~~ I know I am going against the trend as everyone is talking abou

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Dan Langille
> On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Ian Lord mailto:lo...@msdi.ca>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > We are looking for a solution to backup freebsd machine with large ZFS pools > (8TB) So far, I like what you’re doing. > We thought of purchasing a tape library with LTO6 drives which will gives us > 40TB o

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 12/4/2014 9:33 AM, Ian Lord wrote: > Hi, > > We are looking for a solution to backup freebsd machine with large ZFS > pools (8TB) > ... if I can be safe to purchase a 7000$ library, a new server > running freebsd and that it will work. This is not the kind of things I > have sitting in my lab J

[Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, We are looking for a solution to backup freebsd machine with large ZFS pools (8TB) We thought of purchasing a tape library with LTO6 drives which will gives us 40TB of Retention Everyone seems to indicate bacula as a good solution but when I look at the documentation, it seems 10 years ou