There are places that do that, just bing. I would think that DVD/BR wouldn't be the answer considering you can get 4TB on a hard drive these days. You can fit a ton of LTO1 tapes on one of those...
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:19 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > Does anyone know of a service to "convert" tape formats (i.e. LTO1 to > LTO5)??? Or perhaps convert the data to some other media, such as > DVD/Blueray/etc??? > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 9:54 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Tape backup policies > > > Here is something I don't recall being discussed... > > LTO1 may be read by an LTO3 drive. Our LTO3 tapes supposedly can be read > by > our new LTO5 drive... > > What I'm getting at is, keeping "forever" may require moth-balling machines > so they can be read if necessary.... > -- > richard > > "David Mazzaccaro" <[email protected]> wrote on > 06/03/2011 > 08:12:08 AM: > > > Hello everyone. > > For those who are still backing up to tape… > > What do you guys have for tape backup policies? > > I’m curious as to how far back you are keeping tapes – 1 year? 5 years? > > I’ve typically seen a 10 tape rotation w/ a monthly tape put in > > offsite storage. > > Is this still common practice? > > > > . > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > > com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
