Hey folks, being the family IT man I’ve held onto all of my families photos/videos over the last 20 years
I’ve been pretty careless with the backups and I know if I don’t do anything it’s only a matter of time before I lose them
Although I’ve never used them, tape drives seem to be the best so I thought I’d ask here if anyone uses them for their homelab?
It might be overkill for a few GB of photos but I’d also use the tape drives for data hoarding purposes so it’s a win win in my book
How have I never heard of tape drives for backup before? They seam like the ultimate medium for archival storage. Super cheap although very slow, sounds like a good compromise to me.
It’s all we had in the early 90s for archiving :)
because the cartridges are comparatively cheap, yes. but the drives are expensive–minimum $5k (average $8k) for a drive in my country.
Ook, maybe if I ever need to store a petabyte or two for whatever reason.
My folks had a tape backup system in the late 1990s. It used 250MB tapes.
They’ve been around for decades.