On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:35:32PM +0200, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: > Yeah! Got a 500Gig eSATA mounted, 6 slices. The problem is not how > to address the drive, the problem is to backup all that data. That > is, eventually, 4 gig per DVD, or XFS, or a cluster. My main database > I can't live without is 500Meg expected to grow 1 Gig by end-of-year. > (one on 500). Would take an average of 3 months to be reconstructed. > So, I still can burn DVDs for a while. When this will not be possible > anymore, I'll go to clusters. Going to clusters, I just need good > hardware. I don't envision an insanity as a terabytes large raids. > What would be a budget to recover a multi-terabytes array? Don't > answer, this is my pension plan. >
LTO-6 is (or will be) 3.2 TB (according to the wikipedia page). Restoring from this should take less than 3 months... Doug.
