[geeks] tape backup, revisited

[Joshua Boyd]

On Jun 16, 2007, at 10:25 PM, Micah R Ledbetter wrote:

>>
>> ...And in fact, I just found LTO-2 tapes for $28 at another vendor
>> ($140/terabyte) and LTO-3 tapes (400GB native capacity, uncompressed)
>> for $45, which is about $112.50 per terabyte.  And the vendor offers
>> volume discounts off *that*.
>
> Wow. How expensive are the tape drives?

Couple of hundred bucks on ebay.

How many robots can you upgrade with LTO?  LTO robots look really  
expensive, but it seems that you should be able to (at least  
physically) swap drives and tapes in a DLT robot to upgrade it.

At the moment, I'm thinking DLT robot for offline storage, and LTO  
for actual backups.  Not that I have money for the either.  My  
backups are burning an occasionally DVD.  I'd rather be backing up  
just about everything, but that is a bit beyond my capacity at the  
moment.  I have a DLT drive I need to get going, but to trust it, I'd  
need to have a second one on standby somewhere.