Network based tape drive
by bloggins666 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#59H3M)
I had seen a few years ago that there existed for linux, a tape driver that created the devices ("/dev/mt0" for example) but they were in fact network based tape drive interfaces.
So what would happen is that you could have your backup s/w use these interfaces as they would any tape drive using the standard tape drive command set. What they were on the backend was a network based interface to a online service like Amazon S3. Amazon had at the time a service that would emulate the tape drive at their end and read/write your backup to their storage system.
I'm currently running Bacula as my network backup system and they write everything to a large disk on the system as files. Bacula does like tapes though and I'm hoping to set it up so that the full backup ends up being written offsite instead of locally by writing to a virtual tape drive.
So my question is does this interface still exist? Is it just a simple driver to be installed for whichever linux ditro I'm using?
Cheers!!
So what would happen is that you could have your backup s/w use these interfaces as they would any tape drive using the standard tape drive command set. What they were on the backend was a network based interface to a online service like Amazon S3. Amazon had at the time a service that would emulate the tape drive at their end and read/write your backup to their storage system.
I'm currently running Bacula as my network backup system and they write everything to a large disk on the system as files. Bacula does like tapes though and I'm hoping to set it up so that the full backup ends up being written offsite instead of locally by writing to a virtual tape drive.
So my question is does this interface still exist? Is it just a simple driver to be installed for whichever linux ditro I'm using?
Cheers!!