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Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets?
hawkeyeMI writes "I have a small scientific services company, and we end up generating fairly large datasets (2-3 TB) for each customer. We don't have to ship all of that, but we do need to keep some compressed archives. The best I can come up with right now is to buy some large hard drives, use software RAID in linux to make a RAID5 set out of them, and store them in a safe deposit box. I feel like there must be a better way for a small business, but despite some research into Blu-ray, I've not been able to find a good, cost-effective alternative. A tape library would be impractical at the present time. What do you recommend?"
And optar:
http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
You know it makes sense.
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Unlimited space with several accounts.
Go Betamax!!!
Label it something like complete american idol blueray collection and upload it on p2p to piratebay. every couple years rename it to some other horrible popular tv series. It will be self sustaining form of storage with infinite number of redundant hosts.
I laugh at your table on wiki
3.2 TBA what kind of weakling only has 3.2TB?
That is a like throwing Zip drives at the problem.
Huh, don't you see has has Too Much to Do?
your sig is incredibly apt for your post...
I think his/her recommendation was: 17PB Tape.
Probably the giant rare earth magnets I stored in the next box over.
You're welcome. :-D
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I've been doing backups by copying everything to my unlimited drive for years now. It's amazing - it never fills up!
/dev/null if using Unix).
Just type
copy Edit.* NUL
at your command prompt (or cp *
One day I'm gonna look to see how much data I have in that damn thing!
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
But your storage only has to last until December 2012.
Table-ized A.I.