backing up video to tape (DDS)

[Gustin Johnson]

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Dave Ricketzz wrote:
| Tape?  What is "tape"?

It sounds like he is referring to the king of long term digital storage.
~ Things like DLTs and the like.

As for the original question, what tape drive do you have?  Is it
supported by amanda or bacula etc?  Are you planning on using some sort
of archiving/backup software like bacula and amanda?  How big is the
video you want to backup?   Are there budget constraints (if you can
afford modern large tape drives and the media, you may find that online
services such as Amazon's S3 (I use jungledisk which makes S3 easier to
interact with) may be more cost effective.  How long did you want to
archive this data for?

Backing up video files is no different than backing up anything else,
except that size of the files tends to be huge.

You best bet from a size and cost perspective is get something like a
drobo storage robot with the network addon.  Think of it as a RAID
enclosure made easy.

| --- On Thu, 5/22/08, Nick Steeves <nick.steeves at uleth.ca> wrote:
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|> From: Nick Steeves <nick.steeves at uleth.ca> Subject: backing up
|> video to tape (DDS) To: ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com Date:
|> Thursday, May 22, 2008, 6:28 AM Hi,
|>
|> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience backing up video to
|> tape. Supposing you waited many hours to render a project, and
|> wanted a backup of the output video (for long-term archive
|> purposes) in addition to the project, how would you backup the
|> video?  Would you just "tar -cf /dev/nst0 your_video" ?  Is tar
|> really the best solution for backing up video to tape, or does
|> anyone do things differently?
|>
|> Best regards, Nick
|>
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