[Cialug] AIT 8-1 tape changer

[Nathan C. Smith]

Erm, I've dropped DLT tapes twice in about 10 years.  Both times putting
them into their case.  One survived the other was a loss.  Haven't dropped
an HD yet.

Disk backup is starting to look better but there is still something
appealing about tape.  If I can figure out how to make bacula work I will
probably switch to USB Hard Drives and disk.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Perdue [mailto:tim06 at perdue.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:20 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] AIT 8-1 tape changer
> 
> 
> David Champion wrote:
> 
> > Looks like Newegg has the best deal on AIT3's - about $45 per tape.
> > 
> > Disk backup vs Tape backup is kind of an apples & oranges 
> issue. With
> > tapes, you can more easily keep a historical archive. We 
> also take tapes 
> > to an off-site location. As DW pointed out once, I can drop 
> a tape from 
> > 6 feet with no problems, but that would likely destroy a HD.
> > 
> > I've been using AIT tapes for about 7 years, and have had 
> really good
> > luck with them.
> 
> I understand - I was thinking about tape backup myself, as I 
> currently 
> just tar/bzip everything and burn to DVD weekly.
> 
> Looks like newegg has the 500GB drives for $179, which would be a bit 
> cheaper than the tapes on a per-GB basis. Add in the cost of 
> the $2200 
> drive and there's a pretty rich premium there. I wonder why 
> tapes aren't 
> cheaper?
> 
> Who drops this stuff from 6 feet anyway? ;-)
> 
> Tim
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