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Tape drive backups (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Squiddork@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey folks, being the family IT man I've held onto all of my families photos/videos over the last 20 years

I've been pretty careless with the backups and I know if I don't do anything it's only a matter of time before I lose them

Although I've never used them, tape drives seem to be the best so I thought I'd ask here if anyone uses them for their homelab?

It might be overkill for a few GB of photos but I'd also use the tape drives for data hoarding purposes so it's a win win in my book

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[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tape drives will be expensive and likely beyond overkill for this. I'd recommend you grab a blue ray DVD writer and use that instead. The discs are generally shelf stable for 25 years and hold about 50-128GB depending on the disc. Duplicates are cheap, storage is relatively easy, and it doesn't require constant upkeep/power like a hard drive would. Downsides? They just stopped making the discs, so they'll grow in cost over time. That's about it that I can think of.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sony stopped making recordable Blu-ray media. Other companies such as Panasonic and Verbatim are still in production.

[–] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If your purpose is long term archival you should probably be using M-Disc Blu-rays anyway, which are still actively made by Verbatim (and one other company).