Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:44:54AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > Do people use tape drives for backup ? Only in places that need vast amounts of data stored for a very long time with restores being rare. Restoration is slow with tapes. Even a low end LTO drive will set you back thousands of £

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-12 11:58, Dan Ritter wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open should be helpful to you. cheers mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread Dan Ritter
The Wanderer wrote: > However, while I've considered using tapes for backup in my own private > environment, last time I looked the cheapest tape drive with support for > tapes large enough to be reasonable for my hard-drive capacities was > $3000 - and that's just the drive, not the tapes. That

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread Dan Ritter
mick crane wrote: > Do people use tape drives for backup ? > I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big but > see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive. > Do people use those ? Yes. However, my company has switched over to using disk storage for backups.

Re: tape drives

2020-08-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-08-12 at 06:44, mick crane wrote: > Do people use tape drives for backup ? > I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big > but see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive. > Do people use those ? Depends on the context you're talking about. I am giv

Re: Tape Drives?

1997-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Please forgive me for a question that has probably been asked > thousands of times. I've just been so busy lately that I haven't been > able to do the research I usually would. > > Does anyone have any recommendations on a tape