Kirk Strauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> At 2002-01-25T19:16:22Z, "Jeremy Wadsack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We switch from tape- to hdd-based backup because hard drives are MUCH >> cheaper than tapes these days. I need to figure out the 2GB limit on the >> drives before I completely restart the system (separate problem.) > Ehhh? The good tape drives aren't particularly cheap, but the media is > practically throw-away money, especially for any shop larger than one > person. I mean, DDS-3 tapes are about $15, which translates to $0.625 per > GB. Add the fact that tapes are, by their nature, hot-swappable, and I > think you'd be hard-pressed to find a less-expensive and more-featureful HD > setup. Well, $0.625 / GB does not include the cost of the hardware. With a ten tape changer you *might* get 180GB of storage on "24GB" DDS-3 tapes. A 160GB hard drive is about $260. That's much lower cost than 10 DDS-2 tapes and the changer hardware. And it's significantly faster. It became impossible for us to backup 120GB of data in the off-hours of the server and the gtar process was using far too much resources on live web servers. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
