LTO Tape for Data Hoarders: When It's Actually Worth the Complexity
Every data hoarder eventually hits the same wall: the array keeps growing, the electric bill for spinning a dozen drives 24/7 keeps growing with it, and the off-site backup story (see the 3-2-1 backup guide if you haven’t nailed that down yet) gets more expensive every time you add another few TB. At some point, usually somewhere past the 50-100TB mark, people start hearing the same suggestion from old-school sysadmins: buy a tape drive. It sounds like a joke. It isn’t. ...