Comment on Cheapest way to back up a *lot* of data?

badbytes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• cm0002@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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• androidul@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • Mad_Punda@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My kitchen sink in the kitchen is fine though? What about the bathroom sink?

    /s

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• lillardfair@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If blank tapes aren’t cheap enough…

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