Dell tape vaults and linux

[Geoffrey French]

I have been using a PV132T (LTO-2) with Bru for several months.
It is attached to a 1650, dual 1.26Ghz, 512Mb ram.
Throughput from network clients is pretty much limited by how
small the files are. Big compressible files reach 60Mb/s, many small files will
slow down to maybe 10-15Mb/s (all on gibabit network).
Physical test to the tape drive with local gzip'd (uncompressable) files hits the
drive-to-tape limit of about 30Mb/s.

I get about 450-500Gb per tape (LTO-2, 200Gb native).
The existing GUI is a little limited, but functional. A new GUI is
currently available for Mac servers, and once the bugs are worked out
they will release the Linux version. Client software install's easily
and I have used the Linux and SGI IRIX clients with no problems.

No real problems so far. BRU keeps track of the tapes using the bar codes
and I have tried file restore several times with no problems.

                                      Geoff French
                                      NOAA/National Ocean Service


Ray Charles wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> The response from Tolis wasn't exactly Dell specific,
> so I was a bit unsuccessful in getting a definitive
> answer.
> 
> 
> So, if anyone here has a success story about BRU and
> the PowerVaultTape please share it here.  I've heard
> its a good product and its has native linux support.
> 
> -TIA
> 
> 
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