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 06:17:17 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-H8e_3mP2ctTZGxg1Yc0GGM-uRmD5OUS2qgjCKQ3Dhpww@mail.gmail.com> <50CC8116.7030204@csdco.com>

Thanks John, I was actually looking at lto3 for lower cost. Using multiple
tapes is not a problem since the SW knows how to deal with it.

BTW, when they say compressed, does it apply to already compressed files
such as JPG? So I would be looking no gain in the "compressed" space.


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:54 AM, John Nebel <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
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