<div dir="ltr">A dell PowerVault 122T costs as little as $300 -- plus $25/tape or so.<br><br>500GB would take 2-3 tapes depending on compression levels.<br><br>Seems more economical to me than using portable hard drives.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/12 Pat Regan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thehead@patshead.com">thehead@patshead.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Chris Fowler wrote:<br>
> Chris Kleeschulte wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I am not crazy about using tapes or having a service come and gather<br>
>> the tapes.<br>
>><br>
> Why are people so against tapes? It is cost? Is it sequential access<br>
> to data?<br>
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</div>My biggest problem with tape is the the rarity of tape drives. If you<br>
only have 500 gig of data to backup then buying that first tape drive is<br>
likely a pretty big expense for your IT department. If that is already<br>
the case it will be very difficult to buy a second drive to store at<br>
another location.<br>
<br>
If disaster strikes where I live there are no local vendors who sell<br>
tape drives.<br>
<br>
At 500 gig, you can buy a machine full of enough disks to store your<br>
backups off-site for less than the cost of the second tape drive.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> It has been a long time since I used tapes. The primary reason, is that<br>
> I just don't have that much data to backup.<br>
<br>
</div>For backing up small amounts of data I have become a HUGE fan of flash.<br>
I've had a pretty good confidence level ever since I put an old CF card<br>
through the washer and dryer in my pocket. They are durable, shock<br>
resistant, and heat resistant.<br>
<br>
As with any media, never trust only having a single backup :).<br>
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