RE: [OT] large tape backup

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've had a couple of people ask me to come up with a cost effective backup
solution for them over the last year or so - first was a mate who does a
lo=
t
of database development as a contractor and at the time we worked out that
the cheapest solution was to stick an IDE caddy into his all-SCSI machine
and just copy off the data to hard discs.

Then just this week someone else was talking about a multi Tb DVD server
an=
d
asked the same - what's the most cost effective way of backing all that
dat=
a
up? I looked at tape libraries etc and they came out at about =A316k for
th=
e
drive with another hefty wadge for the tapes ... It was - again - cheaper
t=
o
just have a duplicate set of drives!

An 80Gb IDE drive will cost what? =A360 or so? Hell, you'd be looking at
almost that for 80Gb of DDS4 tapes. :-(

Phil=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 18 March 2004 17:44
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] large tape backup
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> Having spent most of the day feeding DVD-R=92s into my burner=20
> doing a backup of a lot of video material, it hung on disc 10 ! :-(
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> Can anyone recommend a good tape storage solution that will=20
> cope with 40Gb+ (native) tapes but preferably even larger as=20
> typical projects are 80Gb! =96 with high transfer speeds.
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> Only looking to spend =A3400-500 if that.
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> Otherwise =96 anyone got a suitable tape drive for sale (go on,=20
> =91borrow=92 that autoloader from your IS department at work =96=20
> I=92ll make it worth your while!)  ;)
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> Paul.
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