On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:35:32PM +0200, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote:
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> Yeah!  Got a 500Gig eSATA mounted, 6 slices.  The problem is not how
> to address the drive, the problem is to backup all that data.  That
> is, eventually, 4 gig per DVD, or XFS, or a cluster.  My main database
> I can't live without is 500Meg expected to grow 1 Gig by end-of-year.
> (one on 500).  Would take an average of 3 months to be reconstructed.
> So, I still can burn DVDs for a while. When this will not be possible
> anymore, I'll go to clusters.  Going to clusters, I just need good
> hardware.  I don't envision an insanity as a terabytes large raids.
> What would be a budget to recover a multi-terabytes array?  Don't
> answer, this is my pension plan.
> 


LTO-6 is (or will be) 3.2 TB (according to the wikipedia page).
Restoring from this should take less than 3 months...

Doug.