▲ 73 ▼ Tape drive backups (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by Squiddork@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 45 comments fedilink hide all child comments Hey folks, being the family IT man I've held onto all of my families photos/videos over the last 20 years I've been pretty careless with the backups and I know if I don't do anything it's only a matter of time before I lose them Although I've never used them, tape drives seem to be the best so I thought I'd ask here if anyone uses them for their homelab? It might be overkill for a few GB of photos but I'd also use the tape drives for data hoarding purposes so it's a win win in my book
[–] cass80@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago Don't buy lto5. Lto6 is the sweet spot right now. I can buy lto6 drives on ebay for 250ish. Tapes are like 15-25 bucks each. permalink fedilink source parent