On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: > 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
I have a tapelib with 8 slots - bought for 100€ - that is 280gb/560gb and no tape juggling needed. But even if you pay say 300€ for a nice LTO, after you have written a couple of tapes it is cheaper than harddisks - and faster.
