On Jan 3, 2008 8:47 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:36:31PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-03 23:34]: > > > If neither hard drives nor CD/DVDs are a good backup soluton, and > > > networking the backup to another computer's hard drive (which then > > > presumably also has the bitrot problem) isn't an option, and a DLT or > > > whatever tape drive is too expensive: > > > > > > Then what other options are there? > > > > a cheaper/used DLT/tape drive ;) > > > > I do see that used DLT drives on eBay are quite inexpensive. Many would > then have to add an appropriate SCSI card since they're probably not > SATA compatible. > > I thought that there was a trend in the industry away from tapes toward > hard-drive-based systems, e.g. virtual tape libraries that are basically > large file servers with far more capacity than throughput. If bitrot is > a serious concern, perhaps they have a way to monitor the condition of > the drives.
That, plus the sheer power of redundancy. Todd
