Return of the tape drives @ 35TB

[rsutoratosu]

http://gizmodo.com/5953682/the-future-of-data-storage-is-cassette-tape
Now the researchers at Fuji and IBM are planning to shrink the internals of the new cassette system further, in order to squeeze 100 terabytes into each cartridge. Of course, tapes aren't perfect: they're slow to access than hard drives.

 

[Elixer]

Would be nice for backups.

 

[Engineer]

Might be very good for businesses or large, home servers and use overnight. I'm looking forward to 1 and 2TB DVD's (or whatever they are called) that I just read an article about.

 

[FleatUWP]

The companies that I have worked at still use off site tape backups with a pickup service. This will be extremely helpful for large enterprises. They certainly serve a purpose.

 

[Mark R]

Has anyone ever actually managed to restore off a tape backup?

 

[tweakboy]

Holy cow 35TB. Just imagine 2TB 3TB hd powners, How much por* and pics and videos and illegal music collection can you put.

 

[mv2devnull]

@tweakboy: Imagine how may 35TB tapes it takes to backup Petabytes, daily.

Has anyone ever actually managed to restore off a tape backup?

Yes, from an old DAT tape. It took an effort to find a drive that could read those cassettes. In the end, the restored data was found not important. :whiste:

So restored yes, successfully yes, years ago yes.


Last tapes that I've handled were LTO-1 (i.e. 100GB). These days, that 35TB starts to look small, but I wouldn't mind having a drive and a stack of tapes.

 

[slag]

Has anyone ever actually managed to restore off a tape backup?

Yes, we do DR tests every year and restore off tape backup.

 

[Evadman]

I would still need 2 of them to back up my server, I would buy them. I need a backup.

 

[smangular]

yeah LTO and SDLT are nice enterprise drives but pricey unless you snap a great used price. That reminds me I have an LTO drive in a box I should dig out although at 1st generation LTO-1 100GB its a relic.

 

[Emulex]

Has anyone ever actually managed to restore off a tape backup?

first week on my job, setup the quantum autoloader, 2nd week my boss deleted the entire lun with 400K users personal home pages. spent a week restoring (slow!).

so yeah, they work. thank god for replication and D2D as it could have probably all fit on a single 3tb drive now with dedupe/super compression

 

[tweakboy]

@tweakboy: Imagine how may 35TB tapes it takes to backup Petabytes, daily.


I dont know your the pedaboy you tell me ...?

 

[shabby]

Be kind, rewind your backups...