i have a backup server with a bunch of high capacity EIDE drives and
use Amanda. works pretty well and cost effective.

--- Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com> wrote:
> 
> Rick Kelly writes:
> > I have 2 Exabyte 8700LT 8mm drives (8500 in disguise), and I can
> squeeze
> > 10 gigs per tape on these. And the tapes are about $6. But exabyte
> doesn't
> > make these any more, just the Mammoth drives with $100 tapes.
> That's 4 times
> > the capacity of my drives at almost 17 times the price for media.
> 
> I'm at a loss as to what to do about long-term backups too.  My 4-Gig
> DDS-2 just doesn't cut it any more and the denser backup media is
> priced ridiculously high (both for the media and for the drive).
> 
> For the time being, I've decided that disk-to-disk backups using
> compressed tar's is the cheapest and easiest way to go.  I can get a
> 75-gig disk drives for the essentially the same price per gig as
> 20Gig
> DDS media ($4/gig for disk, $3/gig for dds-4 media).  When you add in
> the $1400 for the dds4 drive it looks like an even simpler choice.
> 
> I do wish I had a solution for long-term backups, but tape media
> folks
> are smoking crack if they think I'll pay anywhere near disk prices
> for
> tape.
> 
> -wolfgang
> -- 
> Wolfgang Rupprecht    <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>    
> http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
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