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Re[2]: Backup (hardware) for Linux



Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> wrote:

>  > > Can anybody suggest a good drive for backups?  We backup more than 12GB 
>  > > daily, and DDS-3 DATs, what we use now, are quite unreliable and tend to 
>  > > get ruined after a while.
>  
>  I never used DDS-3, but since I live in a very high-tech area and don't
>  see DDS-3 in the stores, I'm guessing it is still very expensive and rare
>  in Israel too. 

Extremely rare. I've ordered HP's 6xDDS-3 (that's 72GBytes raw, without
compression) autoloader, $3k+, and after almost a month of waiting it's still
"will arrive in a week or two" (everyone knows the meaning of that). So if there
are interested people, I'll post a summary once I've got it working.

>  (but take a look at onsale.com if
>  you're storage hungry, the other day I saw there a $60k DLT 1.9 terrabyte
>  HP BU system for $6k)

Not everybody lives in the areas served by onsale.com :-(

Regards,

Evgeny


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