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If you don’t have a massive amount of data to backup, used LTO5/6 drives are quite cheap, software and drivers is another issue however with a lot of enterprise kit.

The problem ofc is that with a tape you need to also have a backup tape drive on hand.

Overall if you get a good deal you can have a reliable backup setup for less than $1000 with 2 drives and a bunch of tape.

But this is only good if you have single digit of TBs or low double digit of TBs to backup since it’s slow and with a single tape drive you’ll have to swap tapes manually.

LTO5 is 1.5TB and LTO6 is 2.5TB (more with compression) it should be enough for most people.

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Dylan16807 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> But this is only good if you have single digit of TBs or low double digit of TBs

That's not so enticing when I could get 3 16TB hard drives for half the price, with a full copy on each drive plus some par3 files in case of bad sectors.

	▲	dogma1138 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		You could, it’s really a question of what your needs are and what your backup strategy is. Most people don’t have that much data to back up, I don’t backup movies and shows I download because I can always rebuild the library from scratch I only backup stuff I create, so personal photos, videos etc. I’m not using a tape backup either, cloud backup is enough for me its cheap as long as you focus your backups to what matters the most.

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sitkack 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I have used LTO5 drives under FreeBSD and Linux. Under Linux I used both LTFS and tar. There was zero issues with software.

	▲	dogma1138 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Older drives are a bit better but still ymmv. Had quite a few issues with Ethernet based drives on Linux in the past.