[geeks] tape backup, revisited

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 23:55:03 CDT 2007


Phil Brutsche wrote:
> One of those drives could buy 4TB of storage.
> 
> Of course, you could find an LTO-2 drive on eBay, but if you're data is
> important enough to you to make backups you may not want to tempt fate
> with a used tape drive ;)

I suppose YMMV.

I've been using ebay-sourced tape drives for years without any trouble.

Peace...  Sridhar



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