Backup Solutions

[Neil Watson]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:01:11AM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
>It really depends.  Low end tape technologies are quite unreliable. 
>There are even cases of tape head alignment problems that mean that the 
>tape can only be read on the tape drive that wrote them.  Too bad if you 
>are doing a DR after the tape drive is destroyed along with several major 
>systems (afterall it is sitting right next to them).

I agree.  I would never recommend consumer grade tape drives.  Yes
reliable tape drives do cost quite a bit.  I like to think of backup
costs as insurance and keep that cost in mind when comparing tapes
versus disks.

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