Re: Any experience with these autochangers?

"Dan Langille" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025, at 12:50 PM, Edheldil wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we plan to upgrade our current tape backup (2x LTO-6 in Dell PowerVault 
> 114X) and we were looking into
> either Dell EMC ML3 or HPE StoreEver MSL2024, both with LTO-9 drives. 
> Unfortunately the vendors are
> unwilling to lease them to us for testing.
>
> We use Bacula community edition on Debian.
>
> Does anyone have an experience with those libraries? I have found 
> MSL2024 mentioned in Bacula wiki,
> https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/wikis/Hardware%20Results
> but that record seems to be years old, so I am not sure how relevant it 
> is.

FWIW: for changers, it's all about scripting.  You may have to create / modify
your changer script, however, that is relatively straight forward.

As to the particular tape drive, it's LTO - it should just work.
-- 
  Dan Langille
  [email protected]
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