-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: | what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are | extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are | made to lay around for years, waiting for the emergency. You even can write to | it over a network/the internet (mbuffer+tar).
It would be perfect if the more high-end backup devices weren't so pricey. My guess would that the tape size of a (cheap) DLT or LTO would be so small that it would take days to backup with close to 1Tb. avg size of a cheap DLT from ebay 20/40, so thats ~20Gb if you're talking mp3s. 1024Gb / 20Gb = 52 tapes. I wouldn't spend 5 days changing tapes only to start the backup again next week :D plus the price of even those old tapes would be a worry at that number. I know this wasn't my thread, but I'm always interested in backup solutions that don't cost a packet, so I thought I'd chime in :) Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkid3LEACgkQrAy5raVjCCtjAwCbBxsbuwjAdHTvEQa+OA13mh6m cHkAn28pYYIbMpiXQyTy5fW0c5Dx57eN =Jbha -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
