Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Tue Jun 17 06:43:53 UTC 2008


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> Do the tapes get taken off-site, or do they sit in the same location that the 
> servers will burn when a fire breaks out?

probably sits on place, if not he wouldn't need tape changer, but would 
change manually :)

> Once the network backup is complete, cycle this complete backup to tape which 
> can be taken off site for longer term storage (after the network backup to 
> 'hot' storage is done, the tape backup time becomes irrelevant).

today tapes are so expensive (not just drives, but tapes) that it's better 
to just have many disks and swap them.



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