Tape is also more durable and in many cases, longer lasting than disk drives. Many places use both. You can typically setup your backup software to use arrays that show up as VTL for your first level of restore, and treat tape as more archival, that gets stored off-site.
On Apr 17, 2014, at 7:18 AM, Chris Schafer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ Making life more interesting for people since 1977
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