Comment on Cheapest way to back up a *lot* of data?
badbytes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tape is still the cheapest and best archival medium. Drives are expensive, but the actual tape is cheap. But 50TB might not be enough to justify.
The tape drive costs more or less 2000€ (without VAT), the tapes cost about 80-100 for a 15tb drive (and compressed capacity doesnt count as the to be backed up data is probably not just a database or text.
Don’t think there are much economic options beside finding the cheapest S3 storage or a secondary backup server.
I’m heavily researching tape for my data, I currently sit around 400TBs Total but only around 200 in data that id actually want to backup and can’t just redownload.
Iirc the break even point 100-150TB
I just came here to say exactly the same thing. Tapes for the long term, but you also have to take reaaaaaly good care of how they’re stored
My kitchen sink in the kitchen is fine though? What about the bathroom sink?
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lillardfair@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If blank tapes aren’t cheap enough…