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Originally posted by iroc409
lan backup... server. i'd like to add a tape system, but damn, a good tape to back up 150gb+ is so fucking expensive. i don't want to really use a home-system qic80 or some shit and have to use 600 tapes. (yes, i know qic80 is VERY old... but it's the first name that came to mind  )
but for some of those newer ones.. you're looking at a few $k for just the drive, and sometimes over a hundred dollars for one freaking tape.
i really should have bought that scsi seagate i saw back on ebay some time ago. it ran on magazines, and would backup 96gb on one magazine. (autoloader).
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I have a 7-tape DLT autoloader I got off ebay for $900.. I spent another $500 to get a DLT8 drive to put in it (it had a dds4 in it) .. it works great.. I bought about $400 worth of tapes.. and I backup all of my servers at the datacenter.. each tape holds 80 gigs I do full backups of our main raid server which right now is about 400GB, and another 2GB for configuration backups (effectively doing full backups except for system binaries on 12 servers).. I do full backups sunday night.. Monday morning I go in and put in another set of tapes that does daily incrementals)
do another full backup thursday night and do incrementals from there..