LTO Ultrium tape drives, libraries, and autoloaders
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Not a great picture,....but they are palm sized ....not priced for the home market as yet....but the need is coming....seems to me.
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Not a great picture,....but they are palm sized ....not priced for the home market as yet....but the need is coming....seems to me.
Disaster Recovery bump!
Uggg could you imagine reading all that data off the tape ;)
I wonder how many people have recovered an entire server from tape. I tried once and it failed rather badly.
First, the boot CD made by Veritas wouldn't boot on the server, although it would boot on workstations. Second, there was no alternate method provided by Veritas to do a disaster recovery. The OS had to be reinstalled and reconfigured manually before the tape could be cataloged.
I do all backups to external hard drives now. I have tested disaster recovery with them and it works. I use ASR backups.
I first heard the term "exabyte" (1000 terrabytes) at a lecture at an HP users group meeting being given by the fellow who was the head of the Superconducting Super Collider that was being built (later abandoned) in Waxahatchie, Texas.
He was describing the projected data needs of the collider, which he said was expected to produce a terrabyte (also a relatively new word to me), per recorded collision. They were planning on backing up this data on offline media, (tape), for later analysis. At the time, I was working in a shop that used 12" 9-track tape reels that recorded at a whopping 6250 bpi.
When the lecture was over, I walked up to him and told him I'd be quite happy do nothing but sell him mag-tape for as long as I could.
6.7GB/in absolutely blows my mind.
Great. So the 3490's I just got done installing are already obsolete?