[ale] Backup strategies

[Stephen Benjamin]

The PowerVaults can hold up to 8 tapes, and some hold more I think.  The
122T I saw for $270 on Froogle was 8.



2008/9/12 Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com>

> Stephen Benjamin wrote:
> > A dell PowerVault 122T costs as little as $300 -- plus $25/tape or so.
> >
> > 500GB would take 2-3 tapes depending on compression levels.
> >
> > Seems more economical to me than using portable hard drives.
> >
>
> Who is going to swap the tapes during the backup?  Won't that make it
> very uneconomical?
>
> Pat
>
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