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Data density vs IOPS.
Mechanical media are slow.
Well, for backups this still sounds kinda nice
Tape backups are rather slow as well - at least as far as I know. The professional stuff was always out of my league monetary wise.
If someone has a good alternative, I'm absolutely up for it.
Currently I'm using a local server with just a RAID1 to mirror important files on my workstation and those (incremental) backups are getting encrypted and uploaded to a cloud drive.
But for really large data amounts, this isn't really practical. So I only use this route for business documents, invoices, etc.
But for large data like code, I'm currently only doing a local mirroring (although on multiple devices), so if my office burns down, I'll lose quite much - at the moment I'm lucky, because I can push my code changes to a customer git mirror, so I should be fine on that front for now.
But still, I loathe the day, I really need to restore from my cloud backup.
Maybe I should do some dry runs periodically, to verify my restore path works. But just like server stuff, I really don't like to touch it that much o:-)
I'm currently using BORG (with Vorta) to backup everything locally and distribute it to my server and the cloud.
If anyone has a better idea, I'd be really grateful...
Doing periodically hard disk backups and giving them to a partner company (while I keep theirs in my safe) seems to not really work out in the long term, as I'm often on business trips and our exchanges got more seldom over time...