Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] backup to multiple disks

2013-05-27 12:45:39
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup to multiple disks
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 12:42:59 -0400
>> Your requirements are not common. So, most people on the list tried to
>> entourage a common best practices.
>
> I suspect they soon will be as a cheap 3TB SATA HDD already costs as
> much as 2.5TB LTO-6 tape.

For that I would still go tape. A LTO tape has bit error rates of 1
bit in 10^17 and a cheap desktop hard drive has bit error rates of 1
bit in 10^14 not to mention that hard drives are way more fragile than
tapes and certainly does not last anywhere near as long as a tape.

John

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