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My company has built something for that. Basically you have a nextcloud instance that you fill up with your data, then you ask for an LTO tape to be written wi
by wazoox 5y ago
My company has built something for that.
Basically you have a nextcloud instance that you fill up with your data, then you ask for an LTO tape to be written with it. Repeat ad infinitum.
The tapes are yours; when you buy a tape it comes with 3 free operations (read, write, checksum control). If you want your tapes back, we'll mail them to you, else we keep them in storage for you.
As the tapes are written using LTFS, you can easily read them back anywhere with the proper drive.
You only pay a fee for the cloud storage; it also gives you access to your archive's database (what file is on which tape, etc).
- xmodem 5y agoThat sounds fascinating. Where can I learn more? Other than writing the same data out to multiple tapes, do you have any capacity for redundancy, should a tape go bad?
- wazoox 5y agoYes you can ask to have several copies, as you simply pay for the tapes. The archival solution can store data also on disks or any S3-compatible storage. We also implemented the ability to turn off entirely (cut the power) disk chassis when unused, to save power (using 60 or 102 drives chassis). So if you have enough data (a few hundred terabytes to petabytes) it can make sense too.
- ksec 5y agoIs it https://www.intellique.com https://www.intellique.com?
- wazoox 5y agoYou can find the archival solution at intellique.org and open a free account on demo.intellique.org . The whole solution is OSS, for obvious durability reasons.