8mo ago

Looking for some advice on moving 100TBs of data from the cloud to tape

With Google Workspace cracking down on storage (Been using them for unlimited storage for years now) I was lucky to get a limit of 300TBs, but now I have to actually watch what gets stored lol

A good portion is uh "Linux ISOs", but the rest is very seldom (In many cases last access was years ago) accessed files that I think would be perfect for tape archival. Things like byte-to-byte drive images and old backups. I figure these would be a good candidate for tape and estimate this portion would be about 100TBs or more

But I've never done tape before, so I'm looking for some purchasing advice and such. I seen from some of my research that I should target picking up an LTO8 drive as it's compatible with LTO9 for when they come down in price.

And then it spiraled from there with discussions on library tape drives that are cheaper but need modifications and all sorts of things

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100TB??? What the heck did you store in there? A lot of "Linux ISOs", ok, I get it, but how many GB is each? Some may be 10/20GB, but I guess that most of them are about 2/4GB. Some images of old drives, ok (some TB), and then?
- I have ~80TB of linux ISO personally.
  It's not hard to get that much, I'm far from having everything I want.
- I've lost count, but upwards of 10,000 Movies/Shows (and ofc each show could have 10, 20 or even 100+ individual files) that only comes to about 100-120TBs
  The remaining 150 or so (My usage is 280TBs, I just locked in a limit of 300) is, well, my entire life that isn't deemed so important as to go to my actual personal GDrive. It's not just some images, it has every image of every drive and device I've ever owned just prior to it being put out of service.
- but I guess that most of them are about 2/4GB.
  Do you watch your Linux ISOs on a phone or what? Even Netflix has higher quality in HD
  
  Netflix streams 1080 videos at a maximum bitrate of 5Mbps. 5Mbps * 60 seconds * 90 minutes / 8bit / 1024 = 3.3GB

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