On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:11:39PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
> Large scale backups - regardless of platform - are hideously expensive. A
> tape library {given that the largest tape drive I know of is only about a
> max of 80 gig per tape} will set you back literally tens of thousands of
> dollars - alternately, you get someone to change the tape when it's full,
> but have to pay them wages to sit around all night waiting.You are forgetting the LTO "Ultrium" tape format - we are starting to replace our aging DLT drives with these - 7 tape robot + drive in a very small case, and at 200Gb per tape, that's 1.4 TERRABYTES of backup storage... Even with our crappy Windows boxen (all 42 of them !!!), we only manage to fill 2 tapes for a full backup. Jon P.S. Oh, not cheap - at about $26k for the drive, and tapes are in the order of $200 each... One tape each weeknight, two on Friday night for the full backup, multiplied by 4 week rotation, plus an additional 3 tapes per month for PERMENANT storage... Not bloody cheap... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
