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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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