[TriLUG] Tape backup jukeboxes?

[stan briggs]

i believe that this thought has been floated on this list before but ...

have you considered big cheap disks? i know that it sounds hokey (sp?) but a
usb2 connection with a chain of 120G disks hanging off of it makes for lots
of backup space (with wonderfully quick restore).

and yes, it's what i'm doing with my data. fulls/incrementals done daily and
cleaned up by a simple cron job.

stan

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Chris Knowles
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 8:41 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Tape backup jukeboxes?

Jukeboxes are going to be very expensive.  (We just spec'd out an 8 tape
LTO-2 juke for ~$9000 storage space... 1600/3200 GiB)

However, used DLT drives on Ebay run ~$50 and can do 20/40 GiB...

CJK

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 08:31 -0400, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
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> My daily backup needs have expanded seriously beyond what a single 
> 4GiB SCSI DAT tape drive can handle.  Is anyone using any sort of tape 
> jukebox, or larger drive, or something?  The current daily backup size 
> currently maxes out at about 5GiB, but that's likely to continue going 
> up. :-(
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