compatibility of NEOs StorageLoader

[MP EPSSI]

Hi Everybody,

Please excuse my poor english, i'm french and you know all over the worl we are not good in language... ;-)

I plan to install a proxmox infra in a customer IT, with a SAN and 3 compute servers.

a fourth server, in another room, will be used for resumption plan, & backups.

my SAN will be over 40TB, resumption plan over the same side and backups over 30Tb (i bet on compression).

for offline backup, il plan to use a lto sotrage tape library,

here is the model, in LTO8 and SAS (NEOs StorageLoader) :
https://www.overlandtandberg.com/products/neo-tape/neos-storageloader/#

My question is, before buy a loader over 5K€, did anyone try it and make it run correctly with PBS ? can it be used to plan daily (hot data, SQL, mails & File) and weekly (Infra, OS, programs) backup simply, with good speed ?

Thank you for your returns.

Best regards.
Mathieu.

 

[dcsapak]

Hi,

currently we did not test with those changers, but if there is a scsi reference we can implement it.
i only found the command reference for the 'NEO S-Series' and 'NEO XL-Series' 'SCSI Media Changer', no idea which one you'd actually buy

though most changers have a very similar command set and we have successful reports from hp/ibm and test ourselves with quantum superloader changers. (also the AWS tape archive changer works, the drives there not though)
so while i cannot guarantee it'll work, we'd do our best to support them (if there is documentation)

 

[MP EPSSI]

Thank for your awnser. we are not married wih material, so withc quantum spuerloader did you test ? is it only a LTO or a robot with tape change ?
Do you have any ref for HP or IBM working ? (currently, labelised HP or IBM LTO are manufactured by Tandberg or Quantum so we can have validation).

Thank for your return, hope we'll make a cool backup architecture with PBS.

 

[dcsapak]

we test here with a quantum superloader 3 (IIRC) https://www.quantum.com/en/products/tape-storage/superloader-3/

in the forum we have some success stories:
e.g. here https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/d...iled-failed-to-fill-whole-buffer.93041/page-2 we got a hp lto4 library working
and here https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/ibm-3584-ts3500-support.92291/ we got an ibm library to work

sadly most often users only write when something does not work and not if everything works fine
but as you can see from above threads, we always try to fix issues as fast as we can (if possible)

 

[fluxX04]

Hi,

we are using a HPE StoreEver MSL2024 with currently LTO 7 tapes - works flawless

Greetz