[CentOS-virt] LTO tape drives and Bacula for Backups?

[Benjamin Franz]

Christopher G. Stach II wrote:
> ----- "compdoc" <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Combined with disk based network storage, tapes have a place
>> in IT.
>>     
>
> Yes, archival storage.
>   

Concur. You can buy 1TB RAID rated SATA drives (with a 7 year warranty) 
for $150 US from Newegg.

The strategy I use is build two machines, one on-site and one off-site, 
and use an rsync over ssh network back up strategy. Using nothing except 
off the shelf you can have a complete RAID6 multi-terabyte on and 
offsite backup system with 'deep' retention going back a year ( 7 x 
daily, 5 x weekly, 3 x monthly, 2 x quarterly, 2 x semiannual) for only 
two or three thousand dollars net and no consumables or manual 
intervention except when a new machine is added to the to be backed up 
or if a drive fails.

-- 
Benjamin Franz