[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

[David Anselmi]

Gary Threlkeld wrote:
[...]
> As to the discussion of tapes being easier to take offsite - what about
> taking backups or mirroring data on spare hard drives - then transmitting
> them to another site -perhaps even an independent vendor that offers disk
> space to house files and are themselves responsible for taking backups of
> their systems with your data?  Wouldn't this negate the issues of transport
> and storage?

I assume that by "transmitting" you mean over a network.  There was a 
company that planned to put huge disk banks under a mountain and do all 
the backups via network (was it Iron Mountain?)  They couldn't because 
they couldn't get enough bandwidth into the place.  "Never underestimate 
the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes."

But in some cases it would be a reasonable solution.

Dave