[PLUG] LTO6 tape and Linux/BSD?

Chris Schafer xophere at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 14:18:34 UTC 2014


Yeah I am pretty sure the math is bad for tape backups except at the
largest scales where the power to spin the drives makes it more expensive.
 Ideally you can find a system to spin the drives down.


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Michael Dexter <dexter at ambidexter.com>wrote:

> On 4/16/14 2:03 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > What sort of budget do you have? Do you need a library for hotswapping
> > tapes? Do you need multiple drives in said library?
>
> Large zpools to backup and sneakernets. It sounds like a basic unit
> would be a good start an no, I didn't think I would ever think of tape
> again, ever, ever.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions.
>
> Michael
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