LTO-3 still the way to go?

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

That'll do. :)

10x.

[Michael Lindsay]

We have LTO-4... ... now we get 150MB/s backups from our SAN.

Sorry for my ignorance:

How does the LTO Drive manage if if there is a bandwidth restriction not its own making..(your feeding from a single drive)??

Does it just seemlessly adjust or do you need to set it up to expect slower data?

thanks

Michael

PS I'm very impressed with 150MB/S

[Irri]

We've had no problems with slower speeds. We've backed up firewire disks on a remote machine via ethernet.

[Axel]

offhollywood -
what kind of interface do you use to transfer and restore data from and to the quantum? Is it like drag and drop? or is it much more complicated?
thanks
axel

[Axel]

one more question
why do you prefer the SDLT and not the LTo quantum drive? Avaibility?

[Matthew Rogers]

We had a choice of SCSI or fibre and we went for SCSI as it was a lot cheaper. We had some setup problems at first, but now we get 150MB/s backups from our SAN.

Are you running Mac or PC? I'm still looking for a SCSI case and card that will work with OSX to put a LTO-3 drive in. Unfortunately, there's not a ton of info about tape drives and OSX on the web that is useful.

Matthew

[Michael Morlan]

Echoing Axel's question, what software for Mac and PC is used for LTO-3 management?

Michael

[Irri]

Are you running Mac or PC? I'm still looking for a SCSI case and card that will work with OSX to put a LTO-3 drive in. Unfortunately, there's not a ton of info about tape drives and OSX on the web that is useful.

Matthew

Mac/Windows/Linux

Are you talking about backing up on set?

We wait until we get back to the office. The LTO-4 machine is very big. It's connected via SCSI to an old G5. We use Bakbone Netvault software to control the tape drive. The G5 is connected to our SAN, but we also have the Netvault client on a Linux server which is backed up over ethernet.

[Matthew Rogers]

Mac/Windows/Linux

Are you talking about backing up on set?

We wait until we get back to the office. The LTO-4 machine is very big. It's connected via SCSI to an old G5. We use Bakbone Netvault software to control the tape drive. The G5 is connected to our SAN, but we also have the Netvault client on a Linux server which is backed up over ethernet.

No, I am not going to do set backups (too slow with LTO-3.) I am looking for a reasonable solution (<$2K) that will work with a MacPro. Right now, as I've figured it out, I will on set backup to a Raid 1 hard drive system and another separate firewire/usb2 HD on set (that would be the client's HD if they are not editing with me) and then take the RAID 1 back to the office where I would do a backup onto a LTO-3 tape. Hopefully, having the LTO-3 will bring me some business from other people who are shooting RED, but don't have a tape drive to backup on.

As I figure it, if you shoot on the RED drive and don't have to erase it, there will be 4 different HD's with the data on it at the end of the day.

Matthew

[Greg M]

We have LTO-4. We worked out that it was better for us as we needed about 20x800GB of storage for a running backup and archiving. I think LTO-3 would be the way to go if you don't need that much space.

We had a choice of SCSI or fibre and we went for SCSI as it was a lot cheaper. We had some setup problems at first, but now we get 150MB/s backups from our SAN.

Which LT0-4 model did you get? where?