Re: [Bacula-users] Hierarchical storage systems?

[Kel R. <ke...@pe...>]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Alan Brown wrote:
> I know this is outside the scope of the list, (despite someone having this
> on the wishlist), but I'm looking for a *nix-compatible (pref linux)
> hierarchical storage system.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager has an HSM component called TSM for Space 
Management.  I haven't used it though I did use TSM for backups until I 
switched to bacula.  We obtained it free of-charge under the IBM 
scholars program.  I think this is now called the academic-initiative 
program.

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr-space/

TSM under Linux requires custom drivers for the tape-library and these 
are distributed as binary kernel-modules for RHEL and SUSE .  They 
work fine under CentOS but the drivers are not always available for the 
errata-update kernels.

You also need to ensure that your tape-library is supported, though it's 
highly likely that it is.