So…I was wondering. Is there any backup tape system that would be advisable to use for backing up some TBs? I guess I need it to be USB, as the server is a micro PC, one of those tiny ones you can hang from behind a monitor. It’s an HP ProDesk.

Thanks!

  • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Does make you wonder who does use tape? Id assume big businesses just use cloud, so who is left that uses tape?

    • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Depending on what cloud tier you are using they might use tape then (e.g. IBM Cloud Object Storage Deep Archive).

      • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Don’t clouds mostly just rely on replication across zones though?

        I would have thought tapes were just too slow to be useful in that environment.

        I’ll read up on the IBM deep archive.

        • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          51 minutes ago

          Many use just HDDs. The load delay is usually because they don’t want to spin up every disk just for one chunk of a file, so they collect jobs and schedule spin up and down times.

          But there are dedicated services that indeed use tape.

        • zarathustrad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          I always assumed that’s why the cheaper longer term storage took so long to recover (having to physically retrieve copies, even if it’s automated), but I have no real knowledge on it. Interesting.