17 Sep
2008
17 Sep
'08
3:48 a.m.
talking with a client about various options for backup. They are an advertising agency so most of the space is used by various binary files JPG/TIFF/Movies.
We have been using LTO-2 but if we jump up their storage to say 2Tb, that's going to be $5000 for LTO-3 with magazines. This affords us 3 week rotations rather simply.
If we add hard drive storage for backups instead of buying LTO-3 tape drive, how much storage would we want for backing up 2Tb of binary data...surely not 6 Terrabytes?
Craig