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Subject: [Leica] Tape backup?
From: billcpearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce)
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:14:31 -0600
References: <CAF8hL-H8e_3mP2ctTZGxg1Yc0GGM-uRmD5OUS2qgjCKQ3Dhpww@mail.gmail.com> <D37917F0-5FD2-4DBF-8FEB-97664DE31DD9@gmail.com>

When you have an offsite backup with a provider, you are at their mercy. If 
business goes bad, you could lose everything. I remember when one of the 
online photo storage services went belly up and send a notice that you had 
just a few weeks to get everything downloaded. Ugh!

-----Original Message----- 
From: Leo Wesson
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 9:53 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Tape backup?

Richard,

Let me guess, Seagate?

Leo Wesson
www.leowesson.com

On Dec 15, 2012, at 7:30, 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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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Tape backup?)
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