Stupid tape drive!
Oct. 21st, 2003 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaI got home last night, and saw that the previous night's backup had failed. So I tried retensioning the tape (standard procedure), and started getting weird noises from my tape drive as the tape slowed down and came to a complete stop. I tried other tapes, and they all did the same thing, too. It looks like after 4 years my STT8000A TR-4 tape drive has finally bit the dust. That's not too bad, considering that I used that drive daily for the first 2 years that I had it.
So, it looks like I get to replace it with this drive, which is funny, because it's HALF as expensive as the same model from another store!
So, it looks like I get to replace it with this drive, which is funny, because it's HALF as expensive as the same model from another store!
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Date: 2003-10-21 08:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-10-21 09:05 am (UTC)Backup technologies.
Date: 2003-10-21 11:17 am (UTC)That's why my backup solution, when I implement it (in my next life), will be a set of hard disks in removable drive enclosures.
I've thought about tape, but it seems like I'd either quickly be in "sets of a hundred tapes" land, or have to shell out an absurd amount of money for high capacity, especially if I wanted to keep the tape drive after the next fileserver upgrade.
Thought briefly about CDs, but I'd be in "sets of 100 CDs" land _now_.
A tempting alternative is checking out one of the filesystems that does versioning (allowing you to roll back changes), and putting that on top of a RAID, but under pathalogical conditions that would require a lot more space than a straight snapshot backup would.
Price differences.
Date: 2003-10-21 11:10 am (UTC)Um, you're looking at IDE vs. SCSI models. The IDE model from the other store is $110.
Re: Price differences.
Date: 2003-10-21 02:47 pm (UTC)You'd think that STT28000 is entirely different from STT38000A-M, yet they are both similar pieces of hardware.
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Date: 2003-10-21 05:01 pm (UTC)and if I can't afford it, I'll deal with DAT.
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Date: 2003-10-22 08:34 am (UTC)