backup these days?

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monkeyboy

I'm planning a new storage server, at least 10-30 TB. What is the current recommended way of backing up such a server... and I mean a real backup (off-site storage, restore multiple past states, etc). I'm still using tape for my smaller servers, but it seems expensive and unwieldy...
 
Is there any storage technology that approaches $1/TB? Or even $10/TB? I'd like to store at least 0.5-1 TB "forever" for no more than $10. It should be on some kind of removable media not unlike a CDROM or tape cartridge.
 
monkeyboy said:
I'm planning a new storage server, at least 10-30 TB. What is the current recommended way of backing up such a server... and I mean a real backup (off-site storage, restore multiple past states, etc). I'm still using tape for my smaller servers, but it seems expensive and unwieldy...
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I asked this question over 3 years ago and there still isn't a good, generic answer. I go into more about what I call "The Ostrich Syndrome" here.

Is there any storage technology that approaches $1/TB? Or even $10/TB? I'd like to store at least 0.5-1 TB "forever" for no more than $10. It should be on some kind of removable media not unlike a CDROM or tape cartridge.
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Well, now that LTO-4 is two generations behind (LTO-6 came out at the end of 2012), companies are starting to phase out their LTO-4 drives and media. It is often possible to pick these up used at a substantial savings. I expect pricing on LTO-4 to continue to fall, probably bottoming out when LTO-7 is released.

You can probably purchase used 500 MB disk drives for under $10, but I'd bet that the future readability of stored tapes is better than that of stored disks.
 
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