Re: [OT] best tape backup system?

Not sure if it is important to many people, but tapes take a lot less
electricity than online disks.
--David Dougall


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Jon Lewis wrote:

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Alvin Oga wrote:

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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

I should clarify, that's 80GB per tape...so 800GB native assumes you have
10 tapes in the unit.

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

I wouldn't pay that much...but I think the "common wisdom" is that tape is
more durable/portable than disks.  Once upon a time, it was cheaper than
disks too...but that's no longer the case.  It's part of why my plan to
buy a bunch of Exabyte stuff got shot down and instead we bought P4's with
1TB SATA-RAID5 arrays to use as "backup servers".

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