A backup is different because it's an offline copy of your data, and you should preferably have two of them, in different physical locations.
That is THREE of them. On tape, in three different places.
When you talk about cloud, assuming the data turns out to be there when you want it, how fast will you get it?
Your broadband might be 1MB/s. LTO tape can do 6GB/s.
And you can put a lot of tapes in an estate car ;-}
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Sunday November 29 2020, @03:52PM
A backup is different because it's an offline copy of your data, and you should preferably have two of them, in different physical locations.
That is THREE of them. On tape, in three different places.
When you talk about cloud, assuming the data turns out to be there when you want it, how fast will you get it?
Your broadband might be 1MB/s. LTO tape can do 6GB/s.
And you can put a lot of tapes in an estate car ;-}
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