Hello and sorry for the OT post, but I felt linux raid administrators can be also very knowledgable about best-of-breed tape backup systems for their linux servers. I admin serveral linux servers with software root raid1/5 and am very happy about their performance and reliability. Up to now our backup strategy has consisted in daily offsite incremental rsync backups to other raid5 linux servers. But I feel a bit nervous about not having offline backups such as tapes that can be restored in the event our servers AND their mirrors suffer catastrophic failure or exploitation. I am considering getting a Sony SAIT 3 with 500G/1TB tapes, which seems like a nice solution for backuping a whole server on a single tape. Has anyone used that hardware and can comment on its performance, linux-compatibility or otherwise? Is there a better solution out there? Is it worth waiting a short while for some new upcoming technology? Thanks for reading and have a nice day! -- I feel naked outside of Vim. -- Ted Knab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
