Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > >>Can we stop Trolling here ? >>Rodrigo, how many DLT tapes do you think he needs to backup >>the 40gig HDD he has in there ? > > > As I mentioned before, LTO is faster and cheaper these days. > > And if you're going to spend $2+K on a backup drive, you > might as well go for the gold and spend $3-4K to get a new > LTO-3 that holds 400GB natively, and backs up at a 80MBps > rate (double each for typical 2:1 hardware compression). hi Bryan, the target data is only 40 GB, not 400 GB. There might be an upgrade down the road - but aparently, the system has access to only a single 40 gig drive. I seriously doubt that given the circumstances, there is even an option to spend the $2K+ on a backup drive. - K