Tape backup solutions

[Nico Albrecht]

Any recommendation for tape backup solutions, preferred sata or usb?

I would be interested in brands, real world prices per TB, tape quality, brands. Cheap storage over speed preferred. Approx 40TB per year expected to be saved.

 

[vmhosts]

How much data do you bag up in each go? I would try and size the drive so you can fit it all onto one tape if possible. It will simplify the management of the media

 

[Nico Albrecht]

Flexible, was thinking of production server around 20TB raid 6 and than every month a dump to tape. It seems Dell, HP all got tape writers but wondering what good tapes are etc... . Speed to recover is not a problem as it is only archiving.

 

[KM-Tiger]

Everyone I know that uses tape a lot uses LTO tapes and drives, and as long as they remember to run the cleaning cassette every so often seem fairly trouble free.

LTO drives would normally connect to the SCSI bus. If you haven't ordered that 20TB RAID6 server yet, then make sure the RAID controller card has a spare external mini HBA port. That will make connecting the tape drive easy.

 

[Deleted member 311694]

Everyone I know that uses tape a lot uses LTO tapes and drives, and as long as they remember to run the cleaning cassette every so often seem fairly trouble free.

LTO drives would normally connect to the SCSI bus. If you haven't ordered that 20TB RAID6 server yet, then make sure the RAID controller card has a spare external mini HBA port. That will make connecting the tape drive easy.

Businesses like it as is is easy, cheap, secure and gives them a disaster recovery solution! Data is automatically backed up via the internet over night to a secure data centre. Data can be easily accessed and recovered via a portal at any time.

For data that size we’d typically take the tapes to the data centre to be uploaded there.

 

[HostXNow]

For unmanaged backup storage, I would recommend using https://www.online.net/en/c14

I hope that helps?