> What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, say
> to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape
> drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no longer
> among us. It is not 10 years old and is already a problem.
>
In bacula provided you have a drive that reads the old media do a
migration to new media/tape technology when you determine the
availability of a technology is going away. I have 80 DLT tapes with
bacula data on them but both of my DLT IV drives are unreliable at
best. When I get time I need to invest $600 in a new DLT (only can buy
from "approved" vendors) so that I can do this for my old data. Most
of this is a second copy of archived data that I have a working copy
on the LTO2 autochanger. I know that is getting old but at least it's
still supported in read mode with LTO4..

John

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