On 12/22/21 09:03, Neil Balchin wrote:
I’ve been down that road, yes bacula can certainly be configured to handle
that at least on a ’nix system. Before your get too far though, you should do
your own research on the reliability of spinning disk drives (internal or
external). They pale in comparison to Tape. I would include s.m.a.r.t. disk
checks as a regular part of my schedule and don’t expect to do this in an
archiving scenario, hard drives sitting on a shelf unpowered for in excess of
a year have frightening failure rates.
LTO tapes are meant to let for 30 yrs
Yeah, but the LTO drives are dead in eighteen months unless you have a
filtered environment for them. (That is my personal experience at
least.) I abandoned tape backup because I got tired of replacing the
drives.
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