Re: [Bacula-users] recommended autoloader

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Ralf Gross wrote: > How usefull is spooling in this case? Not useful if only doing one job. Essential if running concurrent jobs. > For 2TB I would need ~18h with spooling and ~11h without. I'm not sure > how critical shoe shining is for LTO3 drives. But it would be > defini

Re: [Bacula-users] recommended autoloader

2007-03-09 Thread Ralf Gross
John Drescher schrieb: > > I'd like to purchase an autoloader to run with bacula. I need to do up > > to 2tb a night > 2TB in one night. You may have to get an LTO3 autoloader to do that. I > hope your have a gigabit link to the data storage. I remember doing a > 2TB backup in the past but I am su

Re: [Bacula-users] recommended autoloader

2007-03-09 Thread Magnus Ahl
Zakai Kinan wrote: > What Linux flavor are you using with this piece of equipment? > More importantly, what scsi card are you using? We purchased the complete hardware solution from DELL; a PowerVault 124T LTO-3 connected to a PowerEdge 860 Server. I believe the SCSI card in the PE 860 announ

Re: [Bacula-users] recommended autoloader

2007-03-09 Thread Zakai Kinan
What Linux flavor are you using with this piece of equipment? More importantly, what scsi card are you using? ZK --- Magnus Ahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Paul! > > I.m.h.o. DELL PowerVault 124T-DLT provides a _lot_ > bang for the bucks. 6.4 TB native storage on 16 > tapes for approx

Re: [Bacula-users] recommended autoloader

2007-03-09 Thread John Drescher
> I'd like to purchase an autoloader to run with bacula. I need to do up > to 2tb a night 2TB in one night. You may have to get an LTO3 autoloader to do that. I hope your have a gigabit link to the data storage. I remember doing a 2TB backup in the past but I am sure it around 15 to 20 hours to co

Re: [Bacula-users] recommended autoloader

2007-03-09 Thread John Drescher
On 3/9/07, paul van allsburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to purchase an autoloader to run with bacula. I need to do up > to 2tb a night and I'd like to look at the models that work best with > this software. Any offhand recommendations on hardware/tape format? > Thanks! > Paul > I reall

Re: [Bacula-users] recommended autoloader

2007-03-09 Thread Magnus Ahl
Hi Paul! I.m.h.o. DELL PowerVault 124T-DLT provides a _lot_ bang for the bucks. 6.4 TB native storage on 16 tapes for approx. €4100. And at least one very successfull installation with Bacula 2.0.2. *smile* Your retention periods, storage needs and compression ratio is of course also a factor