Re: [SLUG] Inexpensive Tape Drive

From: Robert Haeckl (rhaeckl@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 17:21:45 EDT


Derek Glidden wrote:
>
>snip
>
> In "enterprise" settings where backups really are mission-critical and
> can cost thousands or millions of dollars a minute while you restore
> backups, they have big honking tape robots attached to libraries of
> tapes and REALLY expensive and intelligent backup software that
> guarantees that even if half your tape library has caught fire and
> melted into little plastic pellets, the other half of the tape library
> will still contain all the appropriate bits. Sort of like RAID5 for
> tapes.
>
>snip

Yea, I saw a StorageTek unit with hundreds of tape drives and a big ole
robotic arm in the middle - the whole unit looked like an igloo. It was
used for data that couldn't be immediately online nor offline for
various reasons. This was years ago, though.

-Robert



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