>> >
>> > What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, say
>> > to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape
>> > drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no longer
>> > among us. It is not 10 years old and is already a problem.
>
> Thinking in long term, i belive that the future is the cloud. Pay for 'hire'
> space and let the others take care of migrating data to new technologies
> when they will be available
>
I guess a lot of people will choose this option. Probably same ones
who pay $50K for a 10TB server and think they
>
> What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, say
> to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape
> drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no longer
> among us. It is not 10 years old and is already a problem.
>
> --
> Marcio Me
John Drescher wrote:
>> What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, say
>> to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape
>> drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no longer
>> among us. It is not 10 years old and is already a pr
Since we are on this topic. Never use flash / SSD for this. Current
generation SSD drives have less than 2 years data retention when
powered off. This is only getting worse as the manufacturers are
shrinking the process nodes.
John
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> Wouldn't DVD be a pretty good solution for this? Perhaps they won't be
> around in 10 years, but I'd count that you could find a working reader.
> At that point you could read the data off and write it to whatever the
> latest, most long-term media happens to be.
>
> Certainly better than hard dr
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 15:09 -0500, Marcio Vogel Merlone dos Santos
wrote:
> What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups,
> say
> to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape
> drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no
> longer
Wouldn't DVD be a pretty good solution for this? Perhaps they won't be
around in 10 years, but I'd count that you could find a working reader.
At that point you could read the data off and write it to whatever the
latest, most long-term media happens to be.
Certainly better than hard drives as
> What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, say
> to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape
> drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no longer
> among us. It is not 10 years old and is already a problem.
>
In bacula provided
On 24-03-2010 15:33, Scott Courtney wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 13:14 -0500, Josh Fisher wrote:
>
>>> Agreed. I would not expect a drive to be readable if you sit it on a
>>> shelf for 10 years. It probably would not spin up unless you kept it
>>> in a humidity protected environment.
>>>
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