[ale] Backup strategies

[Pat Regan]

Preston Boyington wrote:
> Pat Regan wrote:
>> 
>> Who is going to swap the tapes during the backup?  Won't that make it
>> very uneconomical?
>> 
> 
> no.  buy a unit that uses multiple tapes.  i think you are looking at a
> single tape unit which is not what you would want.

The cheapest loader I can find from Dell is a 114T with 1 DAT72 drive
for $866.  That's only 36 gig uncompressed.  The price goes up about 400
bucks to switch that to LTO-2 to give you 200 gig uncompressed.  You
might also need to spring for a scsi controller and cable, of course.
In this case that would be a pretty good size percentage of the cost as
well.

If you're a smaller IT shop that might be a pretty big expense.
Especially if you have to do work to move tapes off-site every day.

Pat

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