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> One of these days I'm going to pony up for a LTO drive to do a monthly backup and drop it in a safe deposit box, one ~$115 LTO-7 tape is enough to backup my e
by sigstoat 10y ago
> One of these days I'm going to pony up for a LTO drive to do a monthly backup and drop it in a safe deposit box, one ~$115 LTO-7 tape is enough to backup my entire storage array
the cost of the LTO-7 drive would buy you an eSATA dock and a decent pile of 8TB SMR drives, which you could just write the zfs dump to linearly.
- Alupis 10y agoData stored on tapes is a lot more stable than data on spinning disks, even when sitting on a shelf. I certainly would not replace a tape backup with spinning disk backups - rather, I would use the disks for routine backups and tapes for quarterly archives or similar. Although, for some of our systems, we use rotated tapes nightly. There's a good reason so many folks still use tapes for important systems.