Another question : tape drive

[wizard at neonedge.com (Wizard)]

We have some clients that use Tape Libraries with Veritas or Flashnet, but
we also have some that use DVD burners for data volumes and a clone drive
for /. I think the latter is a reasonable replacement cost-wise, but it
depends on your budget and data store. I definitely see a reason for
off-site Archive storage (fire, earthquake, office affair gone awry...).
Grant M.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> Chris Marget
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 10:15 AM
> To: Jerry Feldman
> Cc: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: Another question : tape drive
>
>
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > My strategy is
> > that 2 hard drives are not going to crash simultaneously (which is not a
> > 100% valid assumption).
>
> barring lightning strike (not a problem around here, usually),
> you're right.
> the risk of trashing data on *both* disks by human error,
> evildoer, filesystem
> corruption is very real...
>
> The original poster didn't specify, but i assume anyone shopping
> for a tape
> drive is interested in archive, not necessarily redundancy.
>
> there are important distinctions between archive backups and
> redundant backups.
>
> the best situation is to have both a RAID setup in the computer
> AND a bunch of
> disks/tapes on the shelf (somewhere far far away).
>
> /chris
>
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