[Leica] Tape backup?

[john.nebel at csdco.com (John Nebel)]

Yes, lto5. lto6 is still a little expensive. I think you have the 
correct price for an SAS drive from ebay, tapes (1.5TB native 3TB 
compressed) may be a bit cheaper than you wrote.

John

On 12/15/12 6:30 AM, Richard Man wrote:
> Well one of my 2TB drive in the back up system just gave up the ghost.
>
> I have ~2TB of images right now, and sure to grow
>
> I know there were a few discussions on back up systems for photos, but I
> don't think tape back up got much attention. Anyone using it?
>
> I am more or less down to choosing between tape back up or Amazon Glacier.
>
> The nice thing about Glacier is that it is entirely offsite. The major
> downside is that while it is much cheaper than other online storage, at
> $0.01 per GB per month, with 2TB of data, that's still $240 per year and
> will be more as I take more photos.
>
> The nice thing about tape is that it is cheap enough ($60-$100 per 2 TB)
> that I can make at least one duplicate copy. The downside is that the
> initial equipment purchase costs $1300-$1800 (and up) and I will have to
> find an offsite solution.
>
> The default is to continue with hard drive back up. The major problem is
> reliability. For business data, I have a a RAID netstation and multiple
> back up on different systems, but for photos, doing the same is just not
> fiscally viable.
>
> Any thoughts?
>