Hijacking a thread is not acceptable - new thread on tape longevity statement.
Your assertion on longevity of tape is incorrect and I have a link for one manufacturer that has their metrics across time and writes. http://support2.imation.com/downloads/imn/LTO/Usage_Life_Imation_Media.pdf There are others out there for the various manufacturers and formats. Other than SSD technology, disks have a hard time keeping up with the speed of modern tape drives. Price point, tape is less expensive. I have lost data on failed disk drives. I have not yet lost data on a backup tape. What evidence do you have to support disk over tape for backups? Patti Clark Linux System Administrator R&D Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory From: Dmitri Maziuk <dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu<mailto:dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu>> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 12:13 AM To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>" <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?! On 10/15/2014 11:45 AM, Thorsten Reichelt wrote: Hi! I have a problem with my tape pool configuration. I want to use exactly 12 LTO tapes (one tape per month). After 12 month the oldest tape shall be reused without appending new data. Other issues aside, you do realise that tape reliability claims are based on the assumption you write the tape once, put it in (controlled enviroment) storage and never take it out again, right? I.e. if you plan on overwriting the same tape more than one or two times, you're better off backing up to hard drives. Dima ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
