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The gateway appliance is fairly compatible with legacy backup solutions, which makes it a great drop-in replacement for physical tape library systems. There are
by sithadmin 4y ago
The gateway appliance is fairly compatible with legacy backup solutions, which makes it a great drop-in replacement for physical tape library systems. There are certainly better backup methods available these days (though it's hard to beat the durability and cost of LTO tape for long-term archival), but I've seen AWS's virtual tape used as a good stopgap while other backup/recovery solutions are still a ways out an org's infrastructure roadmap.
- tablespoon 4y ago> though it's hard to beat the durability and cost of LTO tape for long-term archival I'm not entirely comfortable with the trend towards ever more esoteric and seemingly "all or nothing" technologies. Tape (and other physical things) may have their downsides, but I think there's something to be said for something that could (theoretically) be forgotten in a closet and read 50 years later. Likewise, AM radio may not be the best quality, but it seems like you can cover more area with a single installation than any other communication technology, which might come in handy after a serious disaster like a nuclear war (e.g. crank up the nighttime power of some undamaged countryside station running on generators to tell survivors where it's still safe).
- vbezhenar 4y agoIt's very unlikely that you'll be able to read modern tape from closet in 50 years. Tape requires very precise temperature and humidity for storage. Otherwise all bets are off.
- linksnapzz 4y agoOnly one datapoint; but I’ve seen an FPS/Celerity minicomputer boot off of a Qic-20 tape that’d been stored in a non climate controlled Albuquerque storage unit for 19 years…