On 12/04/2014 11:18 AM, Ian Lord wrote: > I know I am going against the trend as everyone is talking about > using HD as a backup device...
No, if tape's your requirement then tape is your requirement. I was just asking if it really is. > But let say a hacker would manage to get in and play around, or even an angry employee, or... > A simple "rm -r /" and all of our protection is gone. Our 2 distant copies and the zfs snapshots also... Well, if that's the case you might want to hire someone to look at your computer security, but in general > It's kinda hard for a hacker to format all the tapes in a library furthermore, some tapes will be put in a safe... indeed. It is also kinda hard for the disaster recovery team to restore everything from the tapes locked up in a safe and between the financial damage you take from that and from the original hit you might go out of business anyway... But if you have a legal requirement to archive data for X years then tape it is. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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