We are putting in a new server in about a month. We are going with LTO, the drives are anywhere from $2000 to $5000 depending on internal/external and capacity 100/200 or 200/400 (the larger number is compressed capacity) Kind of fun really sitting down with the major vendors and going over everything. Got that kid in a candy store feeling. I guess one point I like of Ultrium over the SuperDLT is that the Ulrium media is only 1/2 inch thick, so it will take up less space in our tape case. Backups are spendy, as someone said earlier it kind of depends on the importance of your data. For our mission critical we use 24 daily tapes, 10 weekly and then a monthly. That adds up at $70 a pop. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hicks To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Sent: 7/24/03 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Backups in DataCenter On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:10, Adam Maloney wrote: > Also, transferring 70Gb to your off-site location might take awhile. > Over a T-1 it will take more than 100 hours (70,000MByte = 560,000 MBit / > 1.5 MBit = 373,333 sec = 103h). > > DLT4 can do 35Gb raw/70Gb compressed on 1 tape. Tapes are about $60-$70 > each (last I bought them anyways). I think you can get DLT4 drives for > under $1,000 now. Actually, I think DLT IV tapes can do 40GB, but it depends on the drive. A DLT 7000 drive can do 35/70GB, and a DLT 8000 can do 40/80GB. I think there are lower-end drives that only handle lower densities. People with money are spending it on LTO Ultrium and Super DLT drives (among others, I imagine). They run up toward 150-200 GB native capacity, but I'm sure prices are through the roof. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I'm afraid of Americans / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list