Yeah I am pretty sure the math is bad for tape backups except at the largest scales where the power to spin the drives makes it more expensive. Ideally you can find a system to spin the drives down.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Michael Dexter <[email protected]>wrote: > On 4/16/14 2:03 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > What sort of budget do you have? Do you need a library for hotswapping > > tapes? Do you need multiple drives in said library? > > Large zpools to backup and sneakernets. It sounds like a basic unit > would be a good start an no, I didn't think I would ever think of tape > again, ever, ever. > > Thanks for all the suggestions. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
