Are you able to copy to newer media types or maybe upgrade to newer drives ?
Your 9840s hold about 20GB, this is tiny by todays standards.
You should consider the following which hold a lot more:
9940Bs hold about 200GB - 400GB (depends on the compression ratio you get)
T10Ks hold about 500GB - 1TB (depends on the compression ratio you get)
LTO3s hold about 400Gb - 800GB (depends on the compression ratio you get, we're getting about 900GB !!!)
LTO4s hold about 800GB - 1.6TB (depends on the compression ratio you get)
All these are a huge leap ahead on what you have, especially the LTO4s, I'm not sure you'll know what to do with yourself if you upgrade to them !!! But there's a huge cost saving to be had eg we currently pay about $50AUS per tape for our LTO3s. So if you upgrade, you should be laughing atleast for the next few years until you need higher density tapes.
Regards,
Dominik
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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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