I used to do tape backup at home....started with a QIC-150, later used 250's in it....(think I got to where I was doing ~10 each weekend.) then 2GB DATs, then DLT4000, DLT7000 (my C drive was one tape, and then the rest eventually taking 9 more tapes)....I looked at LTO1, but never scored a working pulled drive off of eBay....someday I'll toss the drives I did get out.
These days I use a combination of locally attached external drives and backuppc. On the local drives, I run some kind of software (such as Retrospect or Microsoft's Windows Image Backup) so I'll have some kind of bare metal restore....I use mondoarchive on my Linux boxes. And, the backuppc is mainly for oops or data drive restores (the largest single restore I did was nearly 400GB....) ....I'm up to a 5.45TB spool directory.....using 6x2TB drives in a RAID10 configuration. It did fill up the other day..but currently hovers around 4.5TB. I should try to make it stagger out fulls a bit.... (some of the backuppc space is taken up from backing up local filesystems on this fileserver.....there's couple 2x1.5TB RAID1s, a 2x1TB RAID1 and a couple 2x500GB RAID1 (one of these being the OS, and the mirror has started failing....strange how the main drive has a 5 year warranty and is still covered, but the failing mirror only had a 3 year warranty and it ran out a few months ago...thinking I'll put the recertified drive I got in exchange from Seagate for the original mirror). I sometimes think that I should have more...but not really sure what that would be.... perhaps something to look at when I build another fileserver. (currently box is full to more drives....all 6 mobo sata connectors have drives on them, and the 2 port PM eSata card has 5 drives on each of its ports....and all the slots of filled...or blocked... though I am looking at getting some more 2TB drives to swap for 1.5TB drives....so I can get some redundancy to an array on another computer...w/2TB drives being cheaper than 1.5TB drives) Lawrence On 7/21/2011 8:40 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote: > Hi all, > Finally, I'm getting around to sorting out a server for home, to act as a > NAS, a print server, and so forth. > What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at having a few Tb of > storage that I'd like to be able to back up, and I was thinking tape; but > swapping 80-odd DAT tapes would be daft and yet even LTO-5 seems a bit small > (and pricy for home use). In Ireland, we don't really have the broadband > network infrastructure to do backups over the net, so tape seems an obvious > choice, but I'd love to get some more experienced opinions on this. Anyone > got any recommendations or thoughts? > Thanks, > > -- > Mark Dennehy _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
