On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:36:31PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-03 23:34]: > > If neither hard drives nor CD/DVDs are a good backup soluton, and > > networking the backup to another computer's hard drive (which then > > presumably also has the bitrot problem) isn't an option, and a DLT or > > whatever tape drive is too expensive: > > > > Then what other options are there? > > a cheaper/used DLT/tape drive ;) >
I do see that used DLT drives on eBay are quite inexpensive. Many would then have to add an appropriate SCSI card since they're probably not SATA compatible. I thought that there was a trend in the industry away from tapes toward hard-drive-based systems, e.g. virtual tape libraries that are basically large file servers with far more capacity than throughput. If bitrot is a serious concern, perhaps they have a way to monitor the condition of the drives. What do the OBSD people tend to use for archival (put-in-on-the-shelf) kinds of storage? Doug.
