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Is there any tape media backup system that works through USB? (lemmy.world)
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So...I was wondering. Is there any backup tape system that would be advisable to use for backing up some TBs? I guess I need it to be USB, as the server is a micro PC, one of those tiny ones you can hang from behind a monitor. It's an HP ProDesk.

Thanks!

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Does make you wonder who does use tape? Id assume big businesses just use cloud, so who is left that uses tape?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Depending on what cloud tier you are using they might use tape then (e.g. IBM Cloud Object Storage Deep Archive).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Don't clouds mostly just rely on replication across zones though?

    I would have thought tapes were just too slow to be useful in that environment.

    I'll read up on the IBM deep archive.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Many use just HDDs. The load delay is usually because they don't want to spin up every disk just for one chunk of a file, so they collect jobs and schedule spin up and down times.

    But there are dedicated services that indeed use tape.

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