>Lets face it- as painfull as some tapes are to read, >you can usually [with a little patience] pull one out >from 10-20 years ago and pull data off it [if it was >written correctly, if the guy who wrote it verified he >had his data on the tape]-- and you can do this >regardless of wether it was VAX, HP-UX, Sun etc... i'm going to go out on a limb here, but i'm going to guess you've never /actually/ tried this before...
-josh > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of justin gedge > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:59 PM > To: Michael Halcrow; Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List > Subject: Re: Archiving Projects-- TAPE vs. DVD > > Michael Halcrow wrote: > > >I would suspect that one of those RAID NAS units would be a > good backup > >solution for many environments. Sealed hard disks accessed via > >NFS/SMB/FTP over an Ethernet connection will probably be > accessible for > >as long as you'll need the data, and they will certainly last longer > >than either tape or optical when being written to repeatedly. Here's > >something I found on NewEgg (note that I do not necessarily endorse > >this product, but it is pretty cheap for a stand-alone solution, at > >about 70 cents a gigabyte): > > > >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822155306 > > > >This one claims to do RAID-5, if you are a bit more paranoid about > >hardware failure (which you should be ;-): > > > >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833329006 > > > >Mike > >.___________________________________________________________________. > >"In science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts." > > - Carl Sagan > > > > > There was talk of having a massive archive server a few years > ago-- I thought it was a pretty cool idea-- but those > discussions never materialized. I suspect that there is some > comfort in something that sits on a shelf w/ no maintenance > requirements. [warning *** personal opinion here] Something > that does it's job regardless of re-orgs, job changes, > business climate etc... Lets face it- as painfull as some > tapes are to read, you can usually [with a little patience] > pull one out from 10-20 years ago and pull data off it [if it > was written correctly, if the guy who wrote it verified he > had his data on the tape]-- and you can do this regardless > of wether it was VAX, HP-UX, Sun etc... > > I thought it was cool- you'd have the advantage of capacity, > random access [all archived data could be made available to > all -- wich woudl be really cool], and speed. Way faster > than TAPE or DVD. It never materialized though... > > Justin Gedge > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
