Re: [OT] best tape backup system?

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Jon Lewis wrote:

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:

quoted

I am considering getting a Sony SAIT 3 with 500G/1TB tapes, which seems
like a nice solution for backuping a whole server on a single tape.

Has anyone used that hardware and can comment on its performance,
linux-compatibility or otherwise?

Is there a better solution out there?

Better depends on what you want/need/can afford.  Last time I was tape
shopping, I thought this would be a good compromise on the need/can
afford:
Exabyte VXA-2 Packetloader 1x10

Native tape capacity is 800gb.  The only downside is, no magazine...it
stores the tapes in an internal carosel accessed from the front, one
position at a time.  For a bit more $, they have magazine based tape
library systems with VXA-2 drives.

for 1TB of storage ... i'd put the data on 4 disks ( raided ) 
and take the disks and put in nice bubble wrap and nice cushion 

:-)

don't pop the bubbles 

and yup.. i want the fast restore of 1TB of data too which to me
is more important than the $50 or $100 tape costs (plus the tape drive)
vs $600 set of 1TB disk

c ya
alvin

i keep wondering why people pay $150K for 1TB brandname tape subsystems ..
:-)