Can you upgrade your tape drive?

9840 holds 75GB at $80 a tape - just about $1.07 per GB

My LTO3s here hold (on average) 600GB at $35 a tape at about $.06 per
GB.

Also - if you are archiving this you might want to consider two copies.
Nothing worse than trying to restore 8 year old data only to find out
your media went bad.

-Jonathan

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of selwyn
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] How can I archive data offsite inexpensively?


We have regulatory requirements to keep copies of some data at an
offsite location for 10 years.  We have been using 9840 tapes to store
this data--however at 80 a tape this is getting expensive.   [Shocked]  

We would like to continue to use Netbackup to track the MediaID and
images backed up on the media.  I explored the use of recordable DVD's
but these do not appear to be supported by Netbackup.   [Crying or Very
sad]  

Has anyone come up with an inexpensive solution to this problem?
[Question]

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