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| for your own personal cloud , you can easily setup an old machine with some linux (lubuntu ie ) , and owncloud . it's mature now and you have imho something more futureproof or freenas with a bunch of drives in zfs is a nice solution too, it can handle backups more often perhaps i'm off topic ,though 2013/11/18 Mel Matsuoka <melmatsuoka@gmail.com>: > On Nov 18, 2013, at 7:18 AM, Byron Nash <byronnash@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Without spending thousands more for a double bay drive, we haven't found an > easy way to create duplicate copies of the tapes. What we do now is > cumbersome. > > > > In lieu of buying an expensive tape library or auto-loader system, I use a > form of hybrid redundancy with my LTO5 archiving workflow, where for each > set of data, I back it up to an LTO5 tape, as well as at least one bare, > zero-filled SATA drive. I even take things further by protecting the bare > drive directories using a tool like Disk Drill “Recovery Vault" or TechTool > Pro Directory Backup, so that in the in event that the directory on the > drive gets corrupted, I can still recover the original file/folder names. > > I'll then take the LTO5 tapes offsite, and leave the bare-drive archives on > a shelf at work. I use CDFinder/NeoFinder on OSX to catalog the drive for > future searching purposes, and then put it on the shelf, using either > Wiebetech "DriveBox” cases or Orico PHP-35 protective boxes for individual > storage. > > The bare drives not only serve as a cheap, easy way to ensure redundancy > with the LTO archive (in case either my office or house burns down, I’m > still protected…if both of them burn down at the same time, then I have > bigger problems than data redundancy to be concerned with), but also as a > faster-than-tape "offline near-line” archive that I can use if I ever need > to restore an old project for revisions. Philosophically, I consider the > LTO tapes to be a backup of these individual archive drives. > > For the type of work I do, this system is a perfect balance of cost, > security and performance. > > -- > Mel Matsuoka > Finishing Editor / Colorist / Difference Splitter > > Montaj 9 > Honolulu, HI > > http://vimeo.com/montaj9 > http://instagram.com/starwipetv > |
