RE: [OT] large tape backup

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, sure. How much are caddy systems these days?

The other factor is physical storage space - HDD's will probably take up a
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fair bit compared to tape. I guess they will be faster in backup/retrieval
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though (and random access).

Still, there's something whispering in my ear that using HDD's as archive
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torage is unnatural ;)

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 March 2004 17:57
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] large tape backup
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> I've had a couple of people ask me to come up with a cost effective
backu=
p
> solution for them over the last year or so - first was a mate who does
a
> lot
> of database development as a contractor and at the time we worked out
tha=
t
> the cheapest solution was to stick an IDE caddy into his all-SCSI
machine
> and just copy off the data to hard discs.
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> Then just this week someone else was talking about a multi Tb DVD
server
> and
> asked the same - what's the most cost effective way of backing all
that
> data
> up? I looked at tape libraries etc and they came out at about =A316k
for =
the
> drive with another hefty wadge for the tapes ... It was - again -
cheaper
> to
> just have a duplicate set of drives!
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> An 80Gb IDE drive will cost what? =A360 or so? Hell, you'd be looking
at
> almost that for 80Gb of DDS4 tapes. :-(
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> Phil
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 18 March 2004 17:44
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] large tape backup
> >
> > Having spent most of the day feeding DVD-R's into my burner
> > doing a backup of a lot of video material, it hung on disc 10 !
:-(
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a good tape storage solution that will
> > cope with 40Gb+ (native) tapes but preferably even larger as
> > typical projects are 80Gb! - with high transfer speeds.
> >
> > Only looking to spend =A3400-500 if that.
> >
> > Otherwise - anyone got a suitable tape drive for sale (go on,
> > 'borrow' that autoloader from your IS department at work -
> > I'll make it worth your while!)  ;)
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
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