[mythtv-users] MythTV backup

[Dan Ritter]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:06:20AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> 
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> > Brian Wood wrote:
> > ...
> >> I use DLT tape but only because I got the drives and tapes free, if
> >> you had to pay current prices they are way too expensive for consumer
> >> use. Even so 500GB would take up a LOT of tapes.
> >
> > A DLT-S4 tape holds 800GB uncompressed.
> >
> > Writes 50MB/sec.
> >
> > But the drive is not cheap...
> 
> Hmmm... May look into that. I'm using old DLT-4 stuff so at 40GB per  
> tape a 500GB drive would take a lot of tapes to back up.
> 
> That's IDE hard drive write speed (well, almost).
> 
> Thanks for the tip.

The expense combination of the drive plus the tapes means that
if you have a non-growing data store under 1 TB, it's more
cost-effective to buy three external hard disks and rotate them, with
replacement of a disk once a year.

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