Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives
Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:16:41 -0400
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:33:49 EDT, "F.M. Taylor" said:
Granted, anything except tape or disk would require massive amounts of media (like 26000 DVDs), but its a choice. First choice would be LTO4 tapes at about 30-40 each for 100 of them ($3000),
Plus tape drives. Those LTO4 drivers are a chunk of change a piece. Then you need to pay for a robot to load the tapes - either mechanical or biological. I recommend mechanical - they don't miss tape mount requests during lunch breaks as often. ;) No matter how you slice it, it ain't gonna be cheap.
Attachment:
_bin
Description:
Current thread:
- Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Sarazen, Daniel (Jun 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Alex (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data F.M. Taylor (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Joel Rosenblatt (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Sarazen, Daniel (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Adam Nave (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Vik Solem (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data F.M. Taylor (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Christopher Jones (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Rob Whalen (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Valdis Kletnieks (Jun 29)
- Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data Dallas Thornton (Jun 29)