[Leica] Tape backup?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

My thoughts are that you don't just back up your data once to a hard drive
or anything. Me I do multiple backups Just like I used to do with stacks of
floppies in the 80's. If one drive doesn't open in some years down the road
the pix will also be on another one. Sometimes on another one on top of
that.
Hard drive backups at 99 dollars a Terabyte and going down in price every
day is fast efficient and if you do it Redundantly as you can do as its so
cheap its safe.
Is that called a Full Redundancy Backup Strategy?
Might be I'd call it have having a plan with a plan B built in. and C.
You can go back a month. But then a month before that. And then a month
before that.

On 12/15/12 8:30 AM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:

> Well one of my 2TB drive in the back up system just gave up the ghost.
> 
> I have ~2TB of images right now, and sure to grow
> 
> I know there were a few discussions on back up systems for photos, but I
> don't think tape back up got much attention. Anyone using it?
> 
> I am more or less down to choosing between tape back up or Amazon Glacier.
> 
> The nice thing about Glacier is that it is entirely offsite. The major
> downside is that while it is much cheaper than other online storage, at
> $0.01 per GB per month, with 2TB of data, that's still $240 per year and
> will be more as I take more photos.
> 
> The nice thing about tape is that it is cheap enough ($60-$100 per 2 TB)
> that I can make at least one duplicate copy. The downside is that the
> initial equipment purchase costs $1300-$1800 (and up) and I will have to
> find an offsite solution.
> 
> The default is to continue with hard drive back up. The major problem is
> reliability. For business data, I have a a RAID netstation and multiple
> back up on different systems, but for photos, doing the same is just not
> fiscally viable.
> 
> Any thoughts?




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