[Leica] Tape backup?

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

I'm using Drobo and JBOD - just a bunch of disks - all together about 40TB
of storage and backups on-line with even more off-line. I tried using the
cloud for some of my storage but my ISP informed me I was using way too
much bandwidth uplioading all of my files and that they were going to
increase my rates astronomically.  It certainly wasn't worth it.  You'd
better check into that before you plan cloud storage.  My Drobo is pretty
fast.  I have no complaints.

Tina

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:26 AM, FRANK DERNIE
<frank.dernie at btinternet.com>wrote:

> I second that.
> My first drobo is -very- slow but OK since it seems safe and their
> software keeps me informed of its status, I also have a Drobo S which is
> blindingly fast connected by eSata this is the one I would have recommended
> it has just been replaced by a new model.
> You can add discs whenever you fancy and it sorts itself out in the
> background.
> FD
>
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, 15 December 2012, 13:49
> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Tape backup?
> >
> >drobo
> >
> >positives--its own back up & you work directly through firewire & uses
> inexpensive harddrives for expandability
> >
> >negatives--proprietary & not off site
> >
> >I'm happy with mine
> >
> >ric
> >
> >
> >On Dec 15, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> 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?
> >>
> >> --
> >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >>
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