Dear John, In message <49267F25.4080806@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > I currently have a 3x1TB RAID-5 array. It contains backups of my other > machines, taken with rsync. It's my central filestore, rsync'ed locally > so I have previous editions. It also holds my media archive, and in > particular my music collection that I really don't want to have to rip > again. So while part of it is backup for other systems, part of it needs > backed up. I'd like some means of coping with fire or theft of the > server. I want something with some room to expand, which can do the > whole job unattended. So what would the storage professionals here > recommend? Tape autoloaders big enough to cope with >2TB seem stunningly > expensive to me; even the tapes are as expensive per GB as hard drives... If price maters, buy the previous-to-current technology used on eBay or similar - say, some LTO2 autoloader/ Tapes can be stored savely for several years. Ever tried to start a disk that has been stored (afther having been used for some time) for - say - 5 years? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx "Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." - Robert Orben -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
