Hello. I'm looking for some affordable (relatively) archive storage for machines archivization.
When I'm reinstalling OS on servers or disposing old machine I'm always doing full drives backup and "migrate" whole existing OS installation to Virtual Machine. So that if I need to check something after few years I can boot up such VM and get "more or less" the same environment I had configured on old machine. However it takes a lot of space.
For now I'm using 18TB RAID array but it seems to be not really economic solution. Array is rarely accessed and quite expensive to extend, maintain and run. I think it'd make much more sense to get some lower grade tape drive and just get bunch of 10TB tapes so I could use array free space for stuff that is actually accessed more often than once a decade.
What is cheapest high capacity archive storage? I don't think I need super professional high end IBM tape recorder. It's kind of amateur/hobbyst usage. Nothing mission critical. I doubt I'd kill myself even if such tapes would damage xD. I guess I'd prefer something targeted for smaller companies or even soho however I doubt there are soho solutions like that.
inb4 no I don't want cloud solutions. Data retrieval is expensive asf, upload would take ages and I respect my privacy.
Could you please recommend me something?
When I'm reinstalling OS on servers or disposing old machine I'm always doing full drives backup and "migrate" whole existing OS installation to Virtual Machine. So that if I need to check something after few years I can boot up such VM and get "more or less" the same environment I had configured on old machine. However it takes a lot of space.
For now I'm using 18TB RAID array but it seems to be not really economic solution. Array is rarely accessed and quite expensive to extend, maintain and run. I think it'd make much more sense to get some lower grade tape drive and just get bunch of 10TB tapes so I could use array free space for stuff that is actually accessed more often than once a decade.
What is cheapest high capacity archive storage? I don't think I need super professional high end IBM tape recorder. It's kind of amateur/hobbyst usage. Nothing mission critical. I doubt I'd kill myself even if such tapes would damage xD. I guess I'd prefer something targeted for smaller companies or even soho however I doubt there are soho solutions like that.
inb4 no I don't want cloud solutions. Data retrieval is expensive asf, upload would take ages and I respect my privacy.
Could you please recommend me something?
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram