Any OS recommendations for Bareos server with NEOxl 40 tape storage?

[Evert Meulie]

Hi everyone,

I know that many people have their own personal favorites when it comes to Linux flavours, but what would be considered the ultimate OS to host a BareOS server which needs to interact with a NEOxl 40 tape library?

Are there any flavours better than others? 🤓

[Andreas Haase]

Hello,

Am 20.04.2023 um 13:28 schrieb Evert Meulie <eme...@gmail.com>:

I know that many people have their own personal favorites when it comes to Linux flavours, but what would be considered the ultimate OS to host a BareOS server which needs to interact with a NEOxl 40 tape library?

Are there any flavours better than others? 🤓

That depends on your criteria for chosing the right distribution. Your Overland library should be usable in any Linux flavor as I guess, it supports SCSI command set. Of course, you should use a flavor, Bareos is supporting with prebuilt packages. Take a look into documentation or https://download.bareos.org for this.

My favorite distribution for such services is Rocky Linux 9, as I get update for many years.

Regards,

Andreas

[Kai Zimmer]

Hi,

i also run a NEOxl 40 under Ubuntu Linux 20.4 LTS (focal), connected via
SAS. I prefer Ubuntu because it supports newer hardware out of the box -
but generally any other distro listed under
http://download.bareos.org/current/ will do.

Best regards,

Kai