Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] Tape backup?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:15:07 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-H8e_3mP2ctTZGxg1Yc0GGM-uRmD5OUS2qgjCKQ3Dhpww@mail.gmail.com> <CAFfkXxv7201w_C+bhOW6YETOKOtWb3rocdaM5yfHStB_-qCvwA@mail.gmail.com>

Well, at $180 for 2TB, that's 10 drives for $1800.

Unused drives sitting around is less reliable than unused tapes, sitting
around.


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> you can buy a lot of hard drive terrabytes for 1800 bucks
>
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 7:30 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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>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>
> USA
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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