Cheap is defined in comparison with “how long will it take to recreate all that 
data by hand,
if it’s lost”.  The value of that may depend on your reason for doing a backup.

Deb Baddorf
Fermilab

> On Aug 26, 2019, at 6:39 PM, ghe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 8/26/19 4:16 PM, stan wrote:
> 
>> Tapes are cheap! 
> 
> Define 'cheap' :-)
> 
> There's a significant difference between what Google and I consider cheap...
> 
>> What technology BTW.
> 
> LTO-5
> 
> I'm a newcomer from the DLT world. Those were reasonably cheap by my
> definition...
> 
> -- 
> Glenn English


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