Re: [Hampshire] DAT as a backup medium

I agree with just about everything that’s been said – though prior to one of the replies I didn’t know what an archive disk was.



The problem for me is

a)    Cost

b)    Durability

Agree that HDD should last for a few years – but we’ve all seen hdds fail. From what I’ve read, unless you can spread your backups across sites (which may be an option) but tape seems the most durable solution – optical disks are nowhere near reliable for data you don’t want to lose.



I find it amazing hdd technology (which we’ve has since the 70s) is still the medium of preference. When someone finally does crack this (I guess when SSDs do finally take over in terms of capacity and price) we’ll all look back on HDD as rather primitive. I guess we’re just in that period of limbo!



Cheers

Rob

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YMMV, but I personally have a PC in an another building, running backupPC and connected by WiFi.
Your own private 'cloud' would also be an option.

I use my garage, but a friendly neighbour who would reciprocate may also be an option.

I tend to use Unison for cloning from one machine to another.

G.

On 21/04/17 15:55, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote:

Hi all



Is DAT still a viable backup medium if you want USB and to avoid optical disks?



I’ve got about 8Tb to backup and for various reasons don’t fancy: LTO, BluRay, Cloud or HDD (i.e. NAS). I know DAT’s quite old (and I might even be forced to use DAT160 because of cost) but if it’ll do the archiving (write once read seldom) job I have in mind for 8Tb (even if that’s a lot of tapes) I’d be happy.



Thanks

Rob




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