I have just lost a 2TB hard drive from a couple of years ago, which fortunatley I had backed up, but am now faced with copying about 400 DVDs back to my system. And that's going to be a very tedious job!
Plus, I'm about to update my storage array to either a 12TB or 28TB configuration in the next few weeks. I only have around 6TB of material, but am now getting into HD capturing/archiving so suspect I will need the storage headroom as the volume will grow quickly.
That's got me thinking about backup strategies. Having lost 4 external harddrives in the last six years, I'm beginning to think that external drives may not be the best approach.
Options seem to be:
- external USB drives
- 50GB Blu-Ray disks (DVDs aren't really feasible for that volume), or
- An LTO tape drive (refurbished LTO3 and LTO4 SCSI drives aren't ridiculously priced at the moment).
So I was wondering what those of you out there with significant data archives (10TB+) are using for backup these days?
Plus, I'm about to update my storage array to either a 12TB or 28TB configuration in the next few weeks. I only have around 6TB of material, but am now getting into HD capturing/archiving so suspect I will need the storage headroom as the volume will grow quickly.
That's got me thinking about backup strategies. Having lost 4 external harddrives in the last six years, I'm beginning to think that external drives may not be the best approach.
Options seem to be:
- external USB drives
- 50GB Blu-Ray disks (DVDs aren't really feasible for that volume), or
- An LTO tape drive (refurbished LTO3 and LTO4 SCSI drives aren't ridiculously priced at the moment).
So I was wondering what those of you out there with significant data archives (10TB+) are using for backup these days?