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Expand on keeping-them-hot story.... The biggest expense in TAPE storage has always been the tape-changing-robot. (and if you ever worked with SUN HW -- the so
by samstave 3y ago
Expand on keeping-them-hot story....
The biggest expense in TAPE storage has always been the tape-changing-robot. (and if you ever worked with SUN HW -- the software was super expensive and the UI/UX of the backup software (logato? I cant recall the name -- was a PoS (not point of sale) and I hated it...
However, with that said, the price/GB/TB for tape is very cheap...
What would be a good idea would be to use tape duplication robots to take one tape to N tapes on a fairly regulated basis (like every 2,3,5 years) where you read and copy to new such that the medium (the cheap tape) is cycled through...