[geeks] tape backup, revisited
Joshua Boyd
jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Sat Jun 16 23:25:50 CDT 2007
On Jun 16, 2007, at 11:19 PM, Phil Brutsche wrote:
>
> One of those drives could buy 4TB of storage.
>
> Of course, you could find an LTO-2 drive on eBay, but if you're
> data is
> important enough to you to make backups you may not want to tempt fate
> with a used tape drive ;)
For the price difference, you could buy a few used tape drives.
And if your data is important enough to backup, do you really want to
trust it to 4TB of rather cheap disk being carried back and forth
between home and an offsite location (or do you have a way to
reasonably move that much backup data over the net to another secure
location?).
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