You also need to replace tapes due to lifespan or duplicate tapes for redundancy (they’re not 100% reliable).įor a small setup, you could look at this, which offers to stage.
You also have to rehydrate, sending tapes back and forth and having backup software manage them. If you have a tape library that has four drives, it can be costly. LTO8/9 are 12/18TB uncompressed.īut you have to buy new tape drives every 5 years as the technology changes and data gets bigger.
It might be cheaper to just sync data to another data center. Response TapesĪll depends, if you have a petabyte or half a petabyte it might work. I did some research and collected some data. Someone posted on a Facebook group looking for the cheapest means for cold storage backups.