My local backup drives still have room (it’s my main pool with all bluray backups that’s begging for more space), but borgbase is approaching the point where I’ll have to bump to a higher tier or pay per gb. Looking at my usage chart every day adds at a minimum 50mb so something has to change.
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Hupf@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I just buy new HDDs.
gwheel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
chewypoops@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unironically how I use LTO-6 tapes.
2.5TB of storage for ~$5/tape on ebay.
Never delete anything. If the authorities ever come after me, discovery is going to be hilarious.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
What’s the catch, why don’t we use those? I/O speed? Limited read/write cycles? I imagine it sucks if you need files on opposite ends of the tape.
Hupf@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The drives are crazy expensive if you want to use a somewhat recent generation.
chewypoops@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The tapes are $5 but the drive was $400.
It’s linear, so you have to pull a whole backup at a time, but it is possible to store multiple unique backups on a single tape, and only pull one.