On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> However, for even the smallest of business networks, the media size is far
> too small to be considered for serious use. You need sixteen (!) CDs to
> match even one 10 GB Travan-5 tape, and those are some of the smallest tapes
> around. (Unless you use a CD-RW auto-changer, but then you're back to getting
> expensive hardware installed.)
>
> FYI, SCSI Travan-5 drives are not that expensive (less then $300 IIRC).
> But the high-capacity SCSI tape drives can run into the thousands of dollars,
> which is usually the big turn-off for small operations. :(
I'm new to this list (about two hours), but I feel the need to start a
bit of a holy war.
What would people suggest for a reasonable cost backup solution on a
small network with a total of around 50GB of data? Most of the data is
static, so incremental backups would be small. I'm more concerned with
doing full backups that won't take multiple days. Right now my resources
are an EXB-8200 2.5GB 8mm, and a DDS-1 4mm drive. Needless to say, the
quantity of tapes required is enormous.
I have used a VXA-1 drive, and it seems capable enough (33/66GB/tape,
6MB/sec). Do others prefer something else? The price/capacity of the VXAs
seems hard to beat.
--
-Matt
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
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