Re: OT Tape backup recomendations -easier
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote:
> > > What are debian users recommendations for backups?
...
> > > We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with
> > > daily differentials inbetween.
> >
> > get a similar/identical tape drive ... so all your old archives
> > still is readable ... and media is recyclable and usable
>
> This would be nice, but my brief reseach so far suggests that there is
> not much around now that will write to HP Colorado 5GB tapes...
>
> We don't use tape for long term storage - we keep about a fortnights
> worth of files on tape.
that makes things tons easier...
- get any (DLT) tape drive with the desired capacity
( preferably one that obeys "eject /dev/tape" so
( the tape cannot be overwritten if somebody forgets to change it
- eject tape should be the last thing the tape backup does
- depending on your budget, that could be anywhere from
$200 tape drives to $5,000 drives for roughly the same order
of magnitude capacities
- exabyte drives are probably better
- i'd get 2 cheaper tape drives instead of one expensive
one .. even $10,000 tape drives will find its way back
home ( to the repair shop ) regularly at the wrong time
- my "tape backups" consists of "a handful of big disks (250GBeac)
for 1TB backup onto one 1u shelf "
- or lots of itty bitty left spaces spread across the world
c ya
alvin
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