[mythtv-users] MythTV backup
Dan Ritter
dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Thu Apr 3 14:21:59 UTC 2008
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:06:20AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> > Brian Wood wrote:
> > ...
> >> I use DLT tape but only because I got the drives and tapes free, if
> >> you had to pay current prices they are way too expensive for consumer
> >> use. Even so 500GB would take up a LOT of tapes.
> >
> > A DLT-S4 tape holds 800GB uncompressed.
> >
> > Writes 50MB/sec.
> >
> > But the drive is not cheap...
>
> Hmmm... May look into that. I'm using old DLT-4 stuff so at 40GB per
> tape a 500GB drive would take a lot of tapes to back up.
>
> That's IDE hard drive write speed (well, almost).
>
> Thanks for the tip.
The expense combination of the drive plus the tapes means that
if you have a non-growing data store under 1 TB, it's more
cost-effective to buy three external hard disks and rotate them, with
replacement of a disk once a year.
-dsr-
--
Restore our Constitutional rights.
http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference.
More information about the mythtv-users
mailing list