[plug] Tapes

[Brad Campbell]

G'day all,

I've gone and bought an LTO-5 tape drive with the intention of supplementing our already pretty comprehensive backup routine. It won't fit in any of my on-line machines, so the intention is to put it into the office "workshop" machine with a fast disk, stage the backup onto the disk and then write it out to tape overnight. I don't need partial writes or recovery. There will be no issue writing or reading the whole tape. If I need to recover from tape I have bigger issues than the time required.

My thought is to use tar through compression and then encryption streamed out to tape. I'll have a play with compression and encryption that can sustain damage and still recover the remainder as a belt and braces.

Anyone have any tips or ideas?

Regards,
Brad