Am 03.04.2007 um 07:13 schrieb John Andersen:
Yes. Seagate has announced them
and Hitachi is about to deliver ...
Tapes wear out just doing their job. They wear out sitting on the
shelf.
Ack.
Disks don't need to be "trundled". Not with today's bandwidth.
The entire backup can be off site, across the street, or across town.
Thats another point. It's quite easy to have an offsite copy today. You
can pay a fast DSL line for one of your coworkers and place an
archive server
for less then the price of a tape drive in his cellar. It doesn't
meet the
BOFH definition of a backup because you can fry your whole backup at
once,
but it is cheap, automatic, easy to maintain and easy to access - and
you
can have more then one of these systems. And chances your company server
burns down at the same time this archive server burns are not that
high ...
Most installations burn thru dozens of tapes, either thru attrition
or prudent
replacement, while continuing to back up the same drives.
Ack.
Ralf
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