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

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Subject: [Leica] Tape backup?
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:59:46 -0600
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Richard Man <richard at 
richardmanphoto.com>wrote:

> Well, at $180 for 2TB, that's 10 drives for $1800.
>
> Unused drives sitting around is less reliable than unused tapes, sitting
> around.
>


yeah but, if you are using the backup software, the hds get exercised.


>
>
> 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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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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