John Plemons wrote: > Skip the tape route, install a network backup machine using a raid > setup instead. It is quicker and cleaner.Also it can be done in > either Windows, or Centos without any big tricks.. That works great for 'nearline' short term backups, but it doesn't play real well with many emergency recovery plan requirements, such as offsite backups, long term archive retention, etc. One nasty crash on that archive filesystem and a few dozen terabytes of backups could become junk.