[TriLUG] Tape backup jukeboxes?

[Chris Knowles]

Jukeboxes are going to be very expensive.  (We just spec'd out an 8 tape
LTO-2 juke for ~$9000 storage space... 1600/3200 GiB)

However, used DLT drives on Ebay run ~$50 and can do 20/40 GiB...

CJK

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 08:31 -0400, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
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> My daily backup needs have expanded seriously beyond what a single
> 4GiB SCSI DAT tape drive can handle.  Is anyone using any sort
> of tape jukebox, or larger drive, or something?  The current daily
> backup size currently maxes out at about 5GiB, but that's likely
> to continue going up. :-(
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