Topic: Tape recommendation

[kryptos]

Hi All,

Can you recommend me what tape drive could I use with SME? Have anyone tried it? I planning to put my SME fileserver backup to tapes.


Regards,
Rocel

[Boris]

Most standard IDE and SCSI tape drives work, but backup to hard drives is much faster, cheaper and better option.

[David Harper]

I disagree about hard drive backups being better. Cheaper yes. Faster possibly. But tapes are still a great option if you want to have a number of sets, and/or want to send backup media off-site for safe keeping. Tapes are also less prone to failure, especially advanced products like the Sony AIT series.

You'd be surprised how many businesses still use tapes for backup IMO.

[Boris]

I have been using tapes for over 20 years. From floppy interface, to current LTO4 based autoloaders. In the enterprise environment, still using them daily with off-site storage, archives and the whole nine yards. For private small business clients, for years small removable drives, are the tools of choice. The preferred methods are second internal drive(s) for scheduled daily backup and then routine cloning that backup to alternating removable drives for off-site copy or, if the size of backup permits, rsyncing to another server in different location, like another office or owners home.