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tape as an archival medium
Hi all,
I used tapes aplenty back in the 1990's. They were a relatively cheap way to save your data; obviously, slow if you had to access it. And after 2-3 years they would usually go flaky (I am talking 4mm and 8mm tapes). Now I am wondering if anybody has had any recent experience with them and what they impression is. We are potentially looking to archive up to 20 TB of data (for now). Any reports of experience, both positive and negative, would be greatly appreciated. Boris. |
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:10:44 -0700 (PDT), Boris Epstein
wrote: Hi all, I used tapes aplenty back in the 1990's. They were a relatively cheap way to save your data; obviously, slow if you had to access it. And after 2-3 years they would usually go flaky (I am talking 4mm and 8mm tapes). Now I am wondering if anybody has had any recent experience with them and what they impression is. We are potentially looking to archive up to 20 TB of data (for now). Any reports of experience, both positive and negative, would be greatly appreciated. Boris. 20 TB is a huge amount of data... tapes are usually 400gb so you need many of them. I never used tapes for backup, I prefer backup HD, but of course it's your choice. Modern tapes are very reliable anyway, compared to the 90s ones. -- Arts, Music, Technology - http://manuelmarino.com Has technology impoverished the actual experience of listening to music? - http://manuelmarino.com/forum |
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"Boris Epstein" wrote in message ... Hi all, I used tapes aplenty back in the 1990's. They were a relatively cheap way to save your data; obviously, slow if you had to access it. And after 2-3 years they would usually go flaky (I am talking 4mm and 8mm tapes). Now I am wondering if anybody has had any recent experience with them and what they impression is. We are potentially looking to archive up to 20 TB of data (for now). Any reports of experience, both positive and negative, would be greatly appreciated. Boris. our company still backs up to tapes every evening. |
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"Boris Epstein" wrote in message
... Hi all, I used tapes aplenty back in the 1990's. They were a relatively cheap way to save your data; obviously, slow if you had to access it. And after 2-3 years they would usually go flaky (I am talking 4mm and 8mm tapes). Now I am wondering if anybody has had any recent experience with them and what they impression is. We are potentially looking to archive up to 20 TB of data (for now). Any reports of experience, both positive and negative, would be greatly appreciated. Like "Manuel" I also backup to disk - cycling removable 2TB disks. We made the choice to go to disk because it was cheaper and faster. That said, if you are looking at 20TB then that's either a lot of disks or a very large disk changer (last time I looked tapes were up to 400GB), so you may be looking at a very expensive backup solution. Out of curiosity what do you currently backup (your 20TB) to? -- Brian Cryer http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian |
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On Jun 29, 11:34*pm, "Mark Opolo" wrote:
"Boris Epstein" wrote in message ... Hi all, I used tapes aplenty back in the 1990's. They were a relatively cheap way to save your data; obviously, slow if you had to access it. And after 2-3 years they would usually go flaky (I am talking 4mm and 8mm tapes). Now I am wondering if anybody has had any recent experience with them and what they impression is. We are potentially looking to archive up to 20 TB of data (for now). Any reports of experience, both positive and negative, would be greatly appreciated. Boris. our company still backs up to tapes every evening. Mark, Have you had to use those backups? What sort of experience if any have you had trying to read the data off them? Thanks. Boris. |
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"Boris Epstein" wrote in message ... On Jun 29, 11:34 pm, "Mark Opolo" wrote: "Boris Epstein" wrote in message ... Hi all, I used tapes aplenty back in the 1990's. They were a relatively cheap way to save your data; obviously, slow if you had to access it. And after 2-3 years they would usually go flaky (I am talking 4mm and 8mm tapes). Now I am wondering if anybody has had any recent experience with them and what they impression is. We are potentially looking to archive up to 20 TB of data (for now). Any reports of experience, both positive and negative, would be greatly appreciated. Boris. our company still backs up to tapes every evening. Mark, Have you had to use those backups? What sort of experience if any have you had trying to read the data off them? Thanks. Boris. I have been with the company 10 years and never seen or heard of them being a problem but then again the IT guy is very secretive about what he does. |
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"Brian Cryer" not.here@localhost wrote in message
... "Boris Epstein" wrote in message ... Hi all, I used tapes aplenty back in the 1990's. They were a relatively cheap way to save your data; obviously, slow if you had to access it. And after 2-3 years they would usually go flaky (I am talking 4mm and 8mm tapes). Now I am wondering if anybody has had any recent experience with them and what they impression is. We are potentially looking to archive up to 20 TB of data (for now). Any reports of experience, both positive and negative, would be greatly appreciated. Like "Manuel" I also backup to disk - cycling removable 2TB disks. We made the choice to go to disk because it was cheaper and faster. That said, if you are looking at 20TB then that's either a lot of disks or a very large disk changer (last time I looked tapes were up to 400GB), so you may be looking at a very expensive backup solution. Sorry, that should have read "... a very large TAPE changer ...". With our current 2TB doing a price comparision it was a no-brainer to go with disk based backups. But once you need multiple disks for a single backup I suspect other factors may come into play. So I'd be interested to learn your conclusions. Out of curiosity what do you currently backup (your 20TB) to? -- Brian Cryer http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian |
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