Internal Tape Drive question

fullauto

fullauto

I am looking for a cheap, and reliable internal tape for backup of my system. I was wondering if any of you 'gurus' had some input about which you would recommend. I have one machine that will need daily, weekly, and monthly archiving. I will have to archive:
  • Apache configuration files as well as WWW directories
  • Proftpd configuration and directories
  • /root directory
  • a MySQL db.

Total space should be no more than 20 GB. But, scalability is good. Any ideas?
 
My point of view: I don't use tape drives anymore. All my backups are on hard drives (fileservers, the most recent incarnations with zfs), which get migrated every few years. These days, I only use tape drives to read old tapes occasionally.
 
@fullauto

A DDS-4 tape will gave you 20 GB of raw data.
A DAT 72 tape will store 36 GB of raw data.
A LTO-1 tape will handle 100 GB of raw data.

There are many choices here, these above are just examples. Take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook about tape backups:
http://freebsd.org/handbook/backups-tapebackups.html

But also manpages:
mt(1)
sa(4)

@tingo

Tapes are great for offsite, if you do not need offsite, then you do not need tapes.
 
So you think a file server on the premises and one remote for offsite backups is fine? And also, what is ZFS?

tingo said:
My point of view: I don't use tape drives anymore. All my backups are on hard drives (fileservers, the most recent incarnations with zfs), which get migrated every few years. These days, I only use tape drives to read old tapes occasionally.
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