>> Your requirements are not common. So, most people on the list tried to >> entourage a common best practices. > > I suspect they soon will be as a cheap 3TB SATA HDD already costs as > much as 2.5TB LTO-6 tape.
For that I would still go tape. A LTO tape has bit error rates of 1 bit in 10^17 and a cheap desktop hard drive has bit error rates of 1 bit in 10^14 not to mention that hard drives are way more fragile than tapes and certainly does not last anywhere near as long as a tape. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users