[geeks] tape backup, revisited

[Joshua Boyd]

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?).